GURGEN ARSENIAN: "ULP CARRIES OUT 80% OF ITS 2003 PRE-ELECTORAL PROMISES"
YEREVAN, MARCH 2, NOYAN TAPAN. The United Labour Party will place the
order with the RA Central Electoral Commission (CEC) for nomimation at
the coming parliamentary elections by the proportional electoral
system on March 2. Party Chairman and parliamentary faction head
Gurgen Arsenian stated about it at the briefing held on the same
day. In his words, more than 8 dozens of candidates are in general
involved in the ULP proportional list. G.Arsenian heads the
list. Besides him, ULP faction member Grigor Ghonjeyan, State
Conservatory Rector Sergey Sarajian, faction Secretary Hripsime
Avetikian, Deputy Minister of Social Security Tamara Gevorgian,
faction member, Chairman of the NA Standing Committee on Social,
Health Care and Nature Protection Issues Mnatsakan Petrosian, one of
Army of Inedependence founders Smbat Aghayan, Chairman of the RA
Chamber of Advocates Qualification Committee Yenok Azarian, head of
the "Medecins Sans Frontiers" (Doctors without Borders)
Armenian-Belgian organization Anahit Hovhannisian, "Yerkrapah
Kamavorakan Miutiun" (land defender volunteer union) board member
Samvel Hovsepian ("Admiral Samo") are also in the first ten. As
G.Arsenian stated, the party, according to its inner decision and
principle of formation of the NA by the 100% proportional list, will
participate in the elections by exclusively proportional electoral
system. But, this decision does not prohibit that the party members,
in the case of wish, are nominated by the majoritarian electoral
system on the civil initiative. G.Arsenian mentioned that according
to the party estimations, the ULP "existence at the future parliament
will surpass the volume by which it is today presented at the
parliament." Responding the Noyan Tapan correspondent’s question,
G.Arsenian stated that the ULP carried out 80% of its 2003
pre-electoral promises and base programs. The party envisages to
implement "the most serious programs" during the next 5 years. Among
them the ULP Chairman especially attached importance to standing
challenges on the sphere of demography as well as working out of state
programs directed to encouraging young families and birthrate.