ARMENIA TO MAKE FIRST STEP TOWARDS POLITICAL REFORMS

/PanARMENIAN.Net/
12.05.2009 19:59 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The new law "On Local Self-Government in Yerevan"
and the May 31 elections of Aldermen’s Council are the first step
towards political reforms, David Harutyunyan Head of parliament’s
Standing Committee on State-Legal Affairs, said. Mr. Harutyunyan also
stressed the importance of organizing all local-self government
elections simultaneously at the successive stage of political
reforms. "Political reforms are aimed at creating powerful political
parties in Armenia. If, undertaking certain commitments in some
community, a party achieves success, it can propose more ambitious
projects during parliamentary elections. If a party fails to achieve
success in the given community, it is unlikely to receive votes in
subsequent parliamentary elections.

In the meantime, Mr. Harutyunyan stressed that politics cannot
always be unippolar if victory belongs to one party. "At some moment,
poles replace each other. Such local self-government model allows for
periodic changes, especially considering that major part of Armenia’s
population lives in Yerevan," Mr. Harutyunyan said, adding that he
wasn’t optimistic about republicans’ glorious victory in upcoming
elections.