MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT PREDICT REPRESENTATION OF POLITICAL FORCES IN
PARLIAMENT IN 2007

Lragir.am
15 April 06

The new parliament will be based on the people’s will. The author of
this statement is the secretary of the Ardarutiun Alliance Victor
Dallakyan. During the parliamentary briefing on April 14 Victor
Dallakyan and the leaders of the other factions predicted the
representation of forces in the parliament in 2007.

Victor Dallakyan thinks the parliamentary election in 2007 will differ
from 2003 because it will be held before the presidential
election. Victor Dallakyan thinks the coalition forces will hardly
make a deal with the president for a share of power.

The coalition forces avoided specific forecasts. The leader of the
Dashnaktsutiun faction, for instance, says there are members of
parliamentwho have been in the parliament since 1990 and will stay
there with this or that political force.

`To be more serious, the ongoing political processes in Armenia are
quite interesting, and the political forces are now trying to assess
their potential to make decisions on further action and partnership,’
says Levon Mkrtichyan.

Mher Shahgeldyan, the Orinats Yerkir Party, also finds it difficult to
forecast who will appear in the next parliament, saying that in the
long run it is important to specify civilized pre-election rules.

`The system should be designed in a way so as to express the will of
the voter,’ says Mher Shahgeldyan, considering the outcome less
important. The leader of the faction of the Republican party Galust
Sahakyan carries on the general forecast of the coalition; he is also
reluctant to give names of future members of parliament.

`It is still presumptions, no pre-election processes have started
yet. But I think that the main forces represented in this parliament
will be represented in the next one as well,’ says the leader of the
faction of the Republican Party. Only the leader of the faction of the
United Labor Party Gurgen Arsenyan specifies his forecast for 2007. He
announces that from the current parliamentary forces the United Labor
Party, the National Unity, Dashnaktsutiun, the Orinats Yerkir Party
and the Republican Party will be represented in the parliament of
2007. `Also one of the new political parties will appear in the
parliament,’ says Gurgen Arsenyan, without specifying, of course.

The deputy leader of the National Unity Alexan Karapetyan thinks the
future parliament greatly depends on the standpoint of the president
of Armenia. The leader of the National Unity says if Robert Kocharyan
were active in the parliamentary election, the outcome of the
parliamentary election would not be good.

The leader of the Dashnaktsutiun faction Levon Mkrtichyan also thinks
that the president has a considerable influence on the electoral
processes. He says the three parties of the coalition government and a
number of other political forces voted for Robert Kocharyan in 2003.
`So, it is apparent that the president has a political influence,’
says Levon Mkrtichyan. And the leader of the Republican parliamentarians
Galust Sahakyan, answering the question what depends on the president
in the next parliament, announced: `Much depends on the will of the
president.’