PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION TO BE HELD IN NKR ON JULY 19

arminfo
2007-07-18 13:10:00

The presidential election, being the first after adoption of the
Constitution, will be held in Nagorno Karabakh on July 19.

As ArmInfo’s special correspondent in Stepanakert reports,
8 territorial election committees, 276 polling stations have
been formed in NKR territory and 1 in Yerevan, in the Permanent
representation of NKR in RA, for the citizens of Nagorno Karabakh
being in Armenia the election day. The voters’ lists comprise count
over 91,000 people. "Considering the next presidential election in NKR
an important stage of building and development of the state system,
strengthening of democracy, the Central Election Committee carried
out measures to prepare and hold the presidential election openly",
chairman of NKR CEC Sergey Nasibyan said. Arrival of international
observers from Russia, Ukraine, France, Serbia, Macedonia, Italy,
Czech , Germany, Greece, USA, Belgium, Abkhazia, South Ossetia,
Transdniestria, etc. is expected. A press-center has been opened for
journalists to assure publicity of the election committees’ activity,
work with the local and foreign observers, journalists and organize
press-conferences.

According to the Constitution, a candidate, who gathered more than
half of the electors’ votes, is elected the republic’s president. If
there are more than two candidates nominated and they do not gather
over half of votes, the second round of elections is carried out on
the fourteenth day after voting.

Those two candidates, who gather majority of votes, participate in
the second round of the presidential election.

To recall, the presidential contenders are: Armen Abgaryan, Vanya
Avanesyan, Masis Mailyan, Hrant Melkumyan, Bako Sahakyan. All the
candidates, except the leader of NKR Communist party, have been
nominated y the civil initiative.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress