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    VARTKES MAHTESIAN TO SERVE AS ARMENIAN REPRESENTATIVE TO CYPRIOT PARLIAMENT

    PanARMENIAN.Net
    May 3, 2011

    Candidacies for the Cyprus parliamentary elections of May 22 will
    be submitted on Tuesday, May 3, for the 56 seats of the House of
    Representatives and the three seats for the religious groups of the
    Latins, Maronites and Armenians.

    Parliamentary elections take place every five years, for the 56 seat
    House. This will be the 10th parliamentary poll since the Republic
    of Cyprus was established in 1960. Polling day has been set for May 22.

    Cypriot nationals who live abroad will also be able to vote.

    According to the 1960 Constitution, 50 deputies are elected to the
    House. In June 1985, the House by a unanimous decision increased
    this number to 80 (56 from the Greek Cypriot community and 24 from
    the Turkish Cypriot community by virtue of the Law of Necessity.

    Armenians, Maronites and Latins, who belong to the Greek Cypriot
    community, elect their representatives to the House, who do not have
    the right to vote. Vartkes Mahtesian was elected representative of
    the Armenian religious group, Antonis Hatzirousos of the Maronite
    group and Benito Mantovani representative of the Latins, Financial
    Mirror reported.




    From: A. Papazian
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