Elections in Armenia: 5 parties overpassed 5-percent barrier

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Parliamentarian elections in Armenia: 5 parties overpassed 5-percent barrier
13.05.2007 13:45 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ According to the latest information provided by the
CEC of Armenia, five political forces, including Republican Party of
Armenia, ARF `Dashnaktsutyun’ extraparliamentary pro-governmental
`Prosperous Armenia’, as well as opposition parties `Orinats Yerkir’
and extraparliamentary `Heritage’ overpassed the 5-percent barrier in
the parliamentarian elections of Armenia. United Labor Party is also
close to the barrier. At 13:00 local time (12:00 Moscow time) the CEC
published the following interim results of tabulation:

Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) (leader Prime Minister Serzh
Sargsyan) – 428 120

`Prosperous Armenia’ Party (leader – businessman, MP Gagik
Tsarukyan)-189 580

ARF `Dashnaktsutyun’ – 165 464

`Orinats Yerkir’ Party (leader is ex-Speaker Arthur Baghdasaryan) – 87
752

`Heritage’ Party (leader is ex-Foreign Minister Raffi Hovhannisyan) –
68 601

United Labor Party (leader – MP Gourgen Arsenian) – 54 688

Other political forces are still far away from the 5-percent barrier,
IA Regnum reports.

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS