NO PARTY WILL MAKE MAJORITY ALONE IN NA OF NEW CONVOCATION, HEAD OF SOCIOMETER SAYS
Noyan Tapan
May 03 2007
YEREVAN, MAY 3, NOYAN TAPAN. "No party will make majority
alone in the NA of new convocation," Aharon Adibekian, Head of
Sociometer independent sociological center, stated at the May 3 press
conference. Taking as a basis the results of sociological surveys held
so far, he said that the Republican Party of Armenia and the Bargavach
Hayastan (Prosperous Armenia) Party will receive two third of votes,
at that, RPA 34% and BH 32%. And ARF Dashnaktsutiun, Orinats Yerkir
(Country of Law) and National Unity can receive 11.2%, 12,8% and 7%
votes, respectively. By the way, in A. Adibekian’s words, the last
events connected with Orinats Yerkir have not received a response
among the voters yet.
In A. Adibekian’s words, the Zharangutiun (Heritage) Party, the
People’s Party, the United Labor Party and the Dashink (Alliance)
Party pretend on getting over 5% barrier. The latter, in his words,
"gathers speed rather quickly:" according to the surveys, the votes to
be given for Dashink increased for nearly three times within one month.
A. Adibekian said that the People’s Party of Armenia (PPA) has
serious problems with being represented in the parliament. According
to the last surveys, it will receive 2.2% votes in Yerevan and 1.8%
votes in the regions. In A. Adibekian’s words, "the most part of
PPA’s votes was taken away by People’s Party and Bargavach Hayastan
Party." "Maybe Karen Demirchian’s heritage was no so big for his son
to be able to gain votes in the course of years by speculating this,"
he noted adding that PPA should have found additional resources
"for preserving the electorate handed down from the father to his son."
The sociologist also touched upon reliability of the number of party
members. In his words, in consideration of the publicized figures,
it comes that there are 700 thousand partisans in Armenia or every
third citizen of Armenia is a member of a party. And according to the
center’s data, this number fluctuates between 250-300 thousand. "That
is, if BH announces that it has 380 thousand members, this is not so
realistic," A. Adibekian said.
It was also mentioned that the elections turnout will make 55-60%,
at that in the villages and in the regions this index is higher than
in Yerevan.