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    REGULATION AND LIMITATION CAN BE COMBINED

    A1plus

    | 11:43:24 | 14-05-2005 | Politics |

    After every state elections held in Armenia the representatives of
    different parties insist that the results were shuffled. If the law
    "On Parties" functioned in Armenia after the elections several known
    partied would be liquidated.

    Today any party is obliged to take part in the elections two
    consecutive times. If the party does not garner the essential 5% it is
    subject to dismission. Once the initiators of the falsifications are
    punished in Armenia people would trust the law "On Parties". However
    to date the trust is absent and there is even an opinion that this
    law conflicts with the Constitution, accfording to which the parties
    are formed freely and contribute to the formation and expression of
    the political will of the people.

    Deputy Justice Minister Tigran Mukuchyan holds a different
    opinion. "The Constitution established fundamental principle, the
    legal basis for the citizens to express their political will while the
    regulations are fixed in the law. The law does not bar people from
    uniting, it just established certain standards. I think the clauses
    of our law correspond to the international and European standards",
    he says.

    One of the standards is the humber of the party members. If it reduces
    the party should be dismissed. However nothing of the kind has happened
    in Armenia so far. After the adoption of the law "On Parties" over 110
    parties functioned in Armenia, today the number makes 68. The Justice
    Minsitry brought in suits with a demand to dismiss 42 parties due to
    their inconsistency with the law.

    The parties functioning today record of a great number of their
    members. If these figures are summed the total membership of all
    the parties will exceed the number of population fixed by the latest
    census.

    "I am convinced that there are parties, which do not keep the count
    of their members. However we are not empowered to undertake any
    checks. Thus, there are no facts and I am as an official consider it
    inappropriate to present any assessments", Tigran Mukuchyan says.

    Lena Badeyan
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