NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ADOPTED AMENDMENTS TO ELECTORAL CODE

Azat Artsakh Daily, Republic of Nagorno Karabakh [NKR]
07 April 07

During the meeting of April 4 the NKR National Assembly discussed
the amendments to the NKR Electoral Code, the press service of the
NKR National Assembly reported. Sergey Nasibian, the chair of the
Central Electoral Commission, presented the bill and mentioned that
the amendments are necessary to make the Electoral Code comply with
the NKR Constitution, as well as to fix the imperfections of the
code revealed in the previous elections and to conduct a compliant
presidential election. The bill includes amendments to about 15
articles of the Electoral Code. The amendments include the right to
vote, the nomination of presidential candidates, the number of members
of parliament, the age of a member of parliament, the periodicity of
the parliamentary and local elections, etc. The chair of the State
and Legal Committee Hovik Jivanian presented the conclusion of the
committee, approving the bill. The parliament adopted the bill.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress