Parliament passes bill on making amendments to Electoral Code in the first reading

Panorama, Armenia

April 1 2021

The Armenian National Assembly of Armenia passed in the first reading Thursday the bill on making amendments to the Electoral Code of the Country.

The legislation was adopted by 81 votes in favor and no against votes. 23 lawmakers didn't participate in the vote. The speaker of the parliament Ararat Mirzoyan informed that the bill will be debated in the second reading in 5-6 hours. The legislative changes propose switching to the proportional system, removing the current mixed system that allowed lawmakers to be elected via a combination between the proportional and the so-called rating-based system.

The initiative comes just three months before the snap parliamentary elections scheduled for June.

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