Armenian National Congress to stage demonstration to support amendments to electoral code

YEREVAN, November 20. /ARKA/. The opposition Armenian National Congress (ANC) will stage a demonstration on Wednesday outside the National Assembly building in support of the ANC-proposed amendments to the Armenian electoral code, Levon Zurabyan, head of the Congress’ faction in the National Assembly, was quoted by Novosti-Armenia News Agency as saying. 

The National Assembly will convene an extraordinary session tomorrow in response to the ANC’s request to discuss the amendments to the electoral code and to the law on the state population registry. 

“We invite all those people anxious to have the country’s electoral code amended to gather at 14:00 outside the parliament building, where we will try to reach our goal,” Zurabyan said. 

The Armenian National Congress proposes transition from mixed system which implies election through party lists and in individual races to fully proportional party elections. 

The Congress also proposes to tighten grip upon election campaigns to prevent election bribery, to introduce mechanisms which live no room for repeat voting and pressures on voters, to create equal conditions for all the political parties’ election campaigns and to introduce a new system for filing complaints.

 

The Armenian National Congress, opposition parties’ bloc established in August 2008 is headed by the first president of independent Armenia, Levon Ter-Petrosyan. The bloc comprises 18 parties and organizations. The Congress has seven members in the parliament. --0---