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    DRAFT ELECTORAL CODE AMENMDMENTS PROPOSE REPLACING JUDGES WITH COURT EMPLOYEES IN ELECTORAL COMMISSIONS

    Noyan Tapan
    Dec 02 2006

    YEREVAN, DECEMBER 2, NOYAN TAPAN. It is envisaged to discuss in second
    reading the draft amendments to the Electoral Code during the last
    4-day sittings of the RA National Assembly autumn session to start on
    December 4. Prior to that - on December 1 the draft was to be discuused
    in the NA Standing Committee of State and Legal Issues. But at the
    suggestion of the drafts' main speaker, member of the Republican
    Party of Armenian Samvel Nikoyan, the discussion is postponed until
    December 2. The draft was signed by representatives of all the NA
    groups and factions, except Justice and National Unity, which had
    withdrawn their signatures before the draft's first reading, because
    these factions' proposal to form the parliament by 100% proportional
    electoral system had not been accepted by the other co-authors. It is
    noteworthy that the draft does not envisage reviewing the principle of
    the NA formation: the proportion of 90 proportional and 41 majoritarian
    mandates stipulated by the 2005 amendments to the Electoral Code has
    been retained. S. Nikoyan told NT correspon dent that the draft to
    be discussed in second reading has been revised based not only on
    the proposals received after its adoption in first reading but also
    based on the November 7 decision of the RA Constititional Court,
    according to which the inclusion of judges in electoral commissions
    was recognized as anticonstitutional. The draft authors also revised
    the order of forming electoral commissions, which has been in effect
    since 2005: court employees will repalce each judge included in
    an electoral commission. After the 2007 parliamentary elections,
    each member of an electoral commission who was appointed by the NA
    People's Deputy group will also be replaced with court employees and
    not judges as was envisaged by the current Electoral Code.
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