HERITAGE SEATS ARE FEW BUT ARE OCCUPIED BY GOVERNMENT
Lragir
Feb 12 2008
Armenia
The Heritage Party which is one of the five political parties
which appoint members of election commissions reasserted through
its political secretary Vardan Khachatryan and spokesman Hovsep
Khurshudyan on February 12 at the Friday Club that they enable the
opposition running in the presidential election to appoint members of
election commissions, that is Vazgen Manukyan and Levon Ter-Petrosyan
whose parties do not have representatives to election commissions.
The representatives of the Heritage Party declined to tell how many
seats the Heritage Party has provided to Manukyan and Ter-Petrosyan,
but they say most seats remain vacant since Manukyan and Ter-Petrosyan
did not have enough licensed members to appoint to the election
commissions, as required by the law. And since the Heritage Party
provided the seats to the other forces because it lacks licensed
members for about 2000 polling stations, it turns out that most
of the seats of the Heritage Party will remain vacant, which are
therefore appointed by the chairs of commissions. And the chairs
of commissions are representatives of the ruling wing, with all the
stemming consequences. For instance, at some polling stations of the
region of Gegharkunik Republicans have been appointed to some election
commissions instead of the Heritage Party members. The spokesman and
the secretary say there are such commissions but they are not many.