ACCORDING TO SOCIOMETER’S DATA, RPA’S RATING AMONG VOTERS GROWS AND ANC’S FALLS

Noyan Tapan
May 14, 2009

YEREVAN, MAY 14, NOYAN TAPAN. According to the data publicized by
Sociometer sociological center’s head Aharon Adibekian on May 14, in
Yerevan Council of Elders elections the Republican Party of Armenia
(RPA) will receive 55% votes, the Bargavach Hayastan (Prosperous
Armenia) party 21%, the Armenian National Congress bloc 14%, and the
rest parties taken together over 10% votes. As A. Adibekian reported
at the May 14 press conference, these are the results of the surveys
conducted on May 8-9. The sociologist reminded that the previous
surveys were conducted on April 25.

According to A. Adibekian, comparison of current and previous indices
shows the following: BH’s rating has grown by 2%, RPA’s rating by
0.8%, and ANC’s rating has fallen by 5.5%. According to him, the
fall of ANC’s rating is conditioned by the circumstance that this
political force considered the May 31 elections purely political,
but fails to keep that thought bright in public consciousness.

Mentioning that ARFD’s rating is rather low, A. Adibekian made it
clear saying that ARFD coming out of the ruling coalition lost
pro-governmental citizens’ votes and has not managed to gain
opposition’s confidence yet.