COUNCIL OF EUROPE NEVER FORGETS ITS DEMANDS
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[08:15 pm] 28 September, 2006
"Though the role of the parliament has significantly increased due
to the constitutional amendments, there is a threat that the next
parliament will be made up from oligarchs," says Stepan Demirchyan,
leader of "Justice" faction and adds that the representatives of the
PACE monitoring group share his concern in this respect.
During the meeting with the journalists the representatives of
"Justice" bloc said that they approve of proportional election
system as, "majoritarian elections are a source of bribe taking in
our country."
The deputies of the bloc repeated the same words they used to
say for many years, "We assume that there is no alternative for
Euro-integration. But it mustn’t have imitational essence. Democracy
must be driven from the interests of our people and our state. In
fact, we face a regress in the country," say the representatives of
the Opposition.
In Grigor Haroutyunyan’s words, they have informed the PACE
representatives once more that freedom of expression and principle of
diversity are violated in Armenia. "The authorities mainly ignore the
demand of CoE, thus ignoring the demand to return A1+ again to air."
The representatives of the PACE monitoring group have also met with
other factions today and naturally the general picture presented by
them quite different.
Reminder: the PACE representatives are to present their report in 2007.