ARMENIAN PARTIES PREPARE FOR ELECTORAL CAMPAIGN START

PanARMENIAN.Net
06.03.2007 17:46 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenian political parties have launched
formation works of their electoral campaign headquarters. Three
parties-The Republican Party of Armenia (RPA), ARF Dashnaktsutyun and
"National Unity" (NU) have already appointed their heads of campaign
headquarters.

The chairman of RPA campaign headquarters will be Minister of
Territorial Administration, RPA Council member Hovik Abrahamyan. ARFD
appointed in this post NA Foreign Relations Committee Chairman,
representative of ARFD Supreme Body of Armenia Armen Rustamyan. And the
campaign headquarter of NU will lead Secretary of NU parliamentarian
fraction Aleksan Karapetyan, who occupies the second place in party’s
electoral list.

The People’s Party of Armenia, The Joint Labor Party and "Prosperous
Armenia", as well as "Orinats Yerkir" are still discussing the
question.

175 candidates run for 41 parliamentarian mandates on majority system,
that is to say, approximately 4-5 candidates run for one mandate
on average.