1497 CANDIDATES NOMINATED BY PROPORTIONAL ELECTORAL SYSTEM, 173 ONES BY MAJORITARIAN ELECTORAL SYSTEM
Noyan Tapan
Mar 05 2007
YEREVAN, MARCH 5, NOYAN TAPAN. The term of nomination of deputy’s
candidates for the coming parliamentary elections by the proportional
and majoritarian electoral systems completed at 18:00, March 3. The
RA Central Electoral Commission (CEC) summed up the results at the
sitting convened late the same day.
According to it, 27 parties and 1 pre-electoral alliance were
nominated by the proportional electoral system at the elections
to be held on May 12. 1497 candidates are in total nominated in
the latters’ pre-electoral lists. Women make 22.9% of them. The
longest one is the list of the "Orinats Yerkir" (Country of Law)
party: 131 candidates, the shortest is the one of the Progressive
Party of Armenia: 7 candidates. 173 candidates, including 9 women,
were in general nominated in 41 district electoral commissions by
the majoritarian electoral system.