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    MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT PREDICT REPRESENTATION OF POLITICAL FORCES IN
    PARLIAMENT IN 2007

    Lragir.am
    15 April 06

    The new parliament will be based on the people's will. The author of
    this statement is the secretary of the Ardarutiun Alliance Victor
    Dallakyan. During the parliamentary briefing on April 14 Victor
    Dallakyan and the leaders of the other factions predicted the
    representation of forces in the parliament in 2007.

    Victor Dallakyan thinks the parliamentary election in 2007 will differ
    from 2003 because it will be held before the presidential
    election. Victor Dallakyan thinks the coalition forces will hardly
    make a deal with the president for a share of power.

    The coalition forces avoided specific forecasts. The leader of the
    Dashnaktsutiun faction, for instance, says there are members of
    parliamentwho have been in the parliament since 1990 and will stay
    there with this or that political force.

    `To be more serious, the ongoing political processes in Armenia are
    quite interesting, and the political forces are now trying to assess
    their potential to make decisions on further action and partnership,'
    says Levon Mkrtichyan.

    Mher Shahgeldyan, the Orinats Yerkir Party, also finds it difficult to
    forecast who will appear in the next parliament, saying that in the
    long run it is important to specify civilized pre-election rules.

    `The system should be designed in a way so as to express the will of
    the voter,' says Mher Shahgeldyan, considering the outcome less
    important. The leader of the faction of the Republican party Galust
    Sahakyan carries on the general forecast of the coalition; he is also
    reluctant to give names of future members of parliament.

    `It is still presumptions, no pre-election processes have started
    yet. But I think that the main forces represented in this parliament
    will be represented in the next one as well,' says the leader of the
    faction of the Republican Party. Only the leader of the faction of the
    United Labor Party Gurgen Arsenyan specifies his forecast for 2007. He
    announces that from the current parliamentary forces the United Labor
    Party, the National Unity, Dashnaktsutiun, the Orinats Yerkir Party
    and the Republican Party will be represented in the parliament of
    2007. `Also one of the new political parties will appear in the
    parliament,' says Gurgen Arsenyan, without specifying, of course.

    The deputy leader of the National Unity Alexan Karapetyan thinks the
    future parliament greatly depends on the standpoint of the president
    of Armenia. The leader of the National Unity says if Robert Kocharyan
    were active in the parliamentary election, the outcome of the
    parliamentary election would not be good.

    The leader of the Dashnaktsutiun faction Levon Mkrtichyan also thinks
    that the president has a considerable influence on the electoral
    processes. He says the three parties of the coalition government and a
    number of other political forces voted for Robert Kocharyan in 2003.
    `So, it is apparent that the president has a political influence,'
    says Levon Mkrtichyan. And the leader of the Republican parliamentarians
    Galust Sahakyan, answering the question what depends on the president
    in the next parliament, announced: `Much depends on the will of the
    president.'
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