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    Emil Lazarian
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Armenian Parliament votes for changes to Electoral Code

TASS, Russia
May 8 2021
The passing vote threshold for parties has been lowered from 5% to 4%

YEREVAN, May 7. /TASS/. The National Assembly of Armenia has cast 81 votes for changes to the Electoral Code. A session of the parliament was aired live by local news portals on Friday.

"Some 81 individuals voted for [it]. There were 0 against [it] and 0 abstaining. The decision is clear," President of the National Assembly Ararat Mirzoyan asserted.

Thus, the passing vote threshold for parties has been lowered from 5% to 4%. Simultaneously, the percentage threshold for blocs has been raised – for three-party blocks it will amount to 8%, while it will be 10% for blocs of more than four parties.

Broadcasts of election debates on the public TV have been enshrined in law, the list of budgetary expenses will be expanded, an opportunity of increasing the number of lawmakers in the National Assembly will be significantly decreased.

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS