JUSTICE MINISTRY REGISTERS 4 NEW PARTIES

Armenpress

YEREVAN, JULY 19, ARMENPRESS: Armenian justice ministry has registered
four new political parties in the last six months raising their
overall number to 74. The last registered party on June 5 is called
Protection of National Values.

Gurgen Sarkisian, an official from the ministry dealing with
registration of parties, said five of 74 parties are in the process
of liquidation. He said some fifty parties, which failed to meet
new requirements of the revised law on political parties, had been
already liquidated in the last six months.

Under the law, the parties have also to report, apart from other
things, on the number of their members. Now the Orinats Yerkir party
of the former parliament chairman Arthur Baghdasarian officially
has 42,759 members, more than any other party, followed by the
National Unity of Artashes Geghamian that boasts of 41,535 members,
the People’s Party of Stepan Demirchian with 28,214 members and the
governing Republican party which has 25,309 members.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress