Armenian election body registers opposition bloc

Mediamax news agency
1 Mar 07

Yerevan, 1 March: The Central Electoral Commission (CEC) of Armenia
registered the Impeachment opposition election bloc today. The bloc is
formed by the Conservative Party and the Democratic Motherland Party.

The CEC refused to register the Subsidiary Law-Enforcement Brigades of
Yerevan NGO, which submitted an application to implement an
observation mission during the forthcoming parliamentary election on
12 May.

As CEC Chairman Garegin Azaryan stated, the commission refused to
register the organization because of the absence of programme items on
the protection of democracy and human rights in the charter of the
organization.

Besides, according to the CEC chairman, a representative of the
organization plans to participate in the election under the
first-past-the-post system.