‘HERITAGE’ PARTY PRESENTS ITS PROPOSALS FOR FULFILLMENT OF PACE RESOLUTION ON ARMENIA

arminfo
2008-05-19 13:09:00

ArmInfo. ‘Heritage’ party presented its proposals and initiatives for
fulfillment of PACE Resolution 1609 from April 17, 2008, by Armenia
and concerning Armenia.

According to the "Heritage" information, spread today, the party
offers to form election committees for the power and the opposition
to have equal number of representatives in the election committees,
the ballot-papers to be printed in one of EU countries, the election
to pass by the principle "one voter-one vote" and the voters’ fingers
to be marked by special ink.

Moreover, "Heritage" party offers to form a National TV and Radio
Commission for the power and the opposition be represented in the
Commission by equal number of participants, the candidacy of the
head of the Public TV and Radio Company Council to be agreed with the
opposition without fail, the authorities to fulfill their liabilities
concerning the previous PACE resolution on Armenia and give an air to
"A1+" and "Noyan Tapan" TV companies, the parliamentary opposition
to get 1 hour of TV and Radio air per week during the most popular
time for watching by TV audience.

"Heritage" party also offers to "stop any attempts of carrying out
a telephone justice", initiating of a constitutional reform aimed
at granting a right to the opposition to nominate its candidacy
of a prosecutor of special importance, introduction of fundamental
amendments to the law on operative investigation, implementation of
reforms of the judicial-legal system, with consent of the opposition.

"Heritage" party also offers to present a draft Law On opposition to
the Parliament, reform the Law On regulation of the Parliament’s work,
entitle the opposition to hold a post of one of the vice speakers,
the posts of the heads of 4 out of 9 permanent commissions and deputy
heads of five permanent commissions, as well as the post of the head
of the Audit Commission and the post of the human rights defender
("ombudsman"). The oppositional factions in the parliament should
be provided with the following rights: assurance of the opposition’s
representatives in all the parliamentary delegations, the right for
convocation of an extraordinary session or RA parliament session,
drawing-up of the agenda of sessions of the second four-day sitting
of each session, the right to appeal to RA Constitutional Court, as
well as an urgent convocation of parliamentary hearings dedicated
to the changes to the law on political parties and the parliament
regulations, as well as discussion of the draft law on the opposition.

"Heritage" party offers to create a "Democratic Center on development
of initiatives concerning implementation of democratic reforms". The
Center will be formed from well-known public figures, human rights
defenders, representatives of non- governmental organizations and
business circles , experts and ordinary citizens. The Center should be
aimed at forming a dialogue and partnership among the governmental
structures and the civil society and its activity should cover
development of proposals concerning the problems of the municipal
power, youth, education and science, health care, priority of the law,
gender equality and other spheres.