ARMENIAN ELECTORAL BODY REGISTERS MPS ELECTED UNDER PARTY LIST

Mediamax news agency
6 Jun 07

Yerevan, 6 June: The Armenian Central Electoral Commission (CEC)
today registered 90 members the National Assembly [parliament] elected
under the proportional system in the 12 May parliamentary election.

The Republican Party of Armenia is represented with 41 MPs;
the Prosperous Armenia party with 18; the Armenian Revolutionary
Federation – Dashnaktsutyun with 16; the Orinats Yerkir party with
eight; and the Heritage party with seven.

Feliks Khachatryan, a CEC member from the opposition Justice bloc,
refused to sign under the document on registration.

The MP mandates will be handed out tonight at the CEC. The CEC
chairman, Garegin Azaryan, said that the first session of the fourth
parliament will open at 1000 [local time, 0500 gmt] on 7 June.

The MPs elected to the parliament under the first-past-the-post system
were registered by the CEC earlier.