68% OF ENFRANCHISED CITIZENS OF YEREVAN GOING TO PARTICIPATE IN THE ELECTIONS
Lena Badeyan
"Radiolur"
01.04.2009 14:35
68% of the electorate in Yerevan are informed about the elections of
May 31 and are preparing to vote; this is the data the President of
the Sociological Association Gevorg Petrosyan presented at a press
conference today. He said this would be a high turnout. "Such level of
participation is usually registered during presidential elections, the
turnout at local elections is lower, as a rule," Gevorg Poghosyan said.
Although no surveys have been conducted on the chances of the political
forces running for the Yerevan City Council, Gevorg Poghosyan considers
that there are two forces that could get 40%, thus ensuring the
majority in the City Council. According to the sociologist, these
forces are the Republican Party of Armenia and the Armenian National
Congress. Having studied the disposition of the public preceding the
elections, the sociologist arrived at the conclusion that everything
should be done to avoid not only politicizing, but also criminalizing
the forthcoming elections.