NOMINATIONS OF CANDIDATES FOR RA DEPUTY TO START FROM FEBRUARY 26

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 23, NOYAN TAPAN. Nominations of candidates for RA
deputy for the forthcoming parliamentary elections will start on
February 26. The deadline of nominations is March 3, 18:00. The
documents on candidates’ nomination by proportional system will be
introduced to the Central Electoral Commission and by majoritarian
system to 41 district electoral commissions functioning in RA
territory, 13 out of which are in Yerevan. To recap, any person having
turned 25, being RA citizen in the past five years and permanently
residing in the country, having the right to vote can be elected as a
deputy. Members of Constitutional Court, judges, employees of RA
Police and National Security Services, tax, customs and prosecutor’s
office bodies cannot be registered as candidates for RA deputy.

Employees of state and local self-government bodies and officials can
be registered as a candidate for deputy in case of temporarily
resigning their commissions, with the exception of persons taking
political posts.