MOST PART OF POLITICAL FORCES REPRESENTED AT PARLIAMENT INTEND TO ACTIVELY WORK IN SUMMER AS WELL

Noyan Tapan
Jun 16 2006

YEREVAN, JUNE 16, NOYAN TAPAN. Heads of only the "RPA," "ARF,"
"Ardaroutiun" (Justice) and "Azgayin Miabanutiun" (National Unity)
factions from the RA NA 6 factions and 2 deputies’ groups participated
in the June 16 summing up briefings of the spring session. The "Orinats
Yerkir" (Country of Law) party considered purposeful to sum up results
of the session at a separate press-conference to be convened soon. It
became clear from the briefings that the most part of the political
forces represented at the Parliament intends to actively work in
summer and has not thought about having rest yet. Galust Sahakian,
the "RPA" faction head assured that the party will implement in
summer inner-party organization works, and he himself will be at the
Parliament in summer. According to Stepan Demirchian, the "Ardarutiun"
faction head, the People’s Party of Armenia headed by him will also
be engaged in solution of inner-party problems, connected, in all
probability, with the party congress to be convened in November.

Besides solving inner-party problems, political forces intend to
actively be involved in editing the draft amendments to the Electoral
Code, taking into account the CE Venice Commission’s already got
preliminary conclusion concerning the draft as well as proposals
of political forces. At the consultation convened on June 19 on
RA NA Speaker Tigran Torosian’s initiative, representatives of the
parliamentary forces will decide order of the coming discussions,
and, as "ARF" faction head Hrayr Karapetian assured, they will
inform journalists about it. The deputy also mentioned that the
ARF, supporting increase of women’s role in the executive and
legislative authorities, intends to pursue corresponding amendments
of the Electoral Code. "Ardarutiun" faction head Stepan Demirchian
re-affirmed that in the case of not accepting the party’s reservations
connected with amendments in the Electoral Code, the "Ardarutiun"
faction will take back its signature. He also mentioned that it is
mentioned in the Venice Commission’s conclusion as well that usage
of the Electoral Code is finally important. The European observers
expressed an opinion in 2003 that the acting Electoral Code gives
possibility of securing a normal electoral process, so, according to
the deputy, the issue of elections’ justice may not be solved only by
amendments to the Electoral Code. Artashes Geghamian, the head of the
"Azgayin Miabanutiun" faction considered to be itself too anxious
the circumstance that "we have reached a state that any news from
Venice is a lifebuoy for us or just the opposite, a sentence, and it
will mean that the Armenian legislative idea has got dry." However,
"Azgayin Miabanutiun" will participate in the summer discussions at
the deputies’ and experts’ level, if "issues of modern sonority are
discussed." "In the end, we do a common work, and a work that may be
decisive for future developments of Armenia," Geghamian mentioned.