Central electoral commission of Armenia to report on voter activity in Yerevan municipal elections every 3 hours
31.05.2009,
19:25
The Central Electoral Commission (CEC) of Armenia will be informing about how active voters are in the municipal elections in Yerevan every three hours, CEC Press Secretary Tatev Ohanyan reported.
YEREVAN, May 31. /ARKA/. The Central Electoral Commission (CEC) of Armenia will be informing about how active voters are in the municipal elections in Yerevan every three hours, CEC Press Secretary Tatev Ohanyan reported.
The reports will be made starting from 12:00 local time, she said adding that vote count information will be communicated during the night.
Ohanyan said that electoral commissions started their work at 438 polling stations at 7:00 in the morning. The polling stations opened at 08:00.
Municipal council elections are held in Yerevan today with 771,500 electors eligible to vote.
This is the first municipal council elections in the history of Yerevan. Under the new law about local government of Yerevan, the Municipal Council is to have 65 members. Number one in the list of the party that gained absolute majority in the council automatically becomes Mayor of Yerevan.
Party-ticket voting is to be used for the election of the Municipal Council. Six political parties participate in the election - 3 coalitional parties (Republican Party of Armenia, Prospering Armenia and Orinats Yerkir), Armenian Revolutionary Federation Dashnaktsutiun, People’s Party and Labor Socialist Party of Armenia and one political block – oppositional Armenian National Congress. –0--
The reports will be made starting from 12:00 local time, she said adding that vote count information will be communicated during the night.
Ohanyan said that electoral commissions started their work at 438 polling stations at 7:00 in the morning. The polling stations opened at 08:00.
Municipal council elections are held in Yerevan today with 771,500 electors eligible to vote.
This is the first municipal council elections in the history of Yerevan. Under the new law about local government of Yerevan, the Municipal Council is to have 65 members. Number one in the list of the party that gained absolute majority in the council automatically becomes Mayor of Yerevan.
Party-ticket voting is to be used for the election of the Municipal Council. Six political parties participate in the election - 3 coalitional parties (Republican Party of Armenia, Prospering Armenia and Orinats Yerkir), Armenian Revolutionary Federation Dashnaktsutiun, People’s Party and Labor Socialist Party of Armenia and one political block – oppositional Armenian National Congress. –0--
