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Is more than half of Armenian population party members?
http://www.yerkirmedia.am/?act=news&lan=en&id=5872
17:20 . 17/03
It will become known just in a few days how many parties will
participate in the May 6 parliamentary elections: the deadline for the
parties to submit their proportional lists to the Central Electoral
Commission is March 22.
However, it is clear already today that the number of the parties
participating in the election fight will be three times less as
compared to that number in 2007. They are still 9-RPA, PAP, ARF-D,
Orinats Yerkir Party, ANC, Heritage Party, Free Democrats, Democratic
Party, Communist Party, against more than twenty in 2007. The parties,
which participated in the 2007 elections exist now, too. Some of them,
People's Party headed by Tigran Karapetyan, for example, Union for
Self-Determination (AIM) headed by Paruyr Hayrikyan, New Times Party
headed by Aram Karapetyan decided not to participate in the elections
evaluating the situation and their own possibilities realistically.
The National Democratic Union, National Democratic Party and National
Democrats Alliance will hardly participate: their leaders already hold
posts in the government and in the bodies adjacent to the president.
As to Christian Democratic Party Leader Khosrov Harutyunyan,
Constitutional Right Union Leader Hayk Babukhanyan and Leader of
National Unity Party Artashes Geghamyan will side with the president
personally, without parties: their names will be in the proportional
list of RPA.
Leader of United Labour Party Gurgen Arsenyan will participate in the
elections in PAP's list. If the Christian Democratic Party and
Constitutional Rights Union, which hardly have 3000 members, have
decided not to participate in the elections on their own, it is not
understandable why Artashes Geghamyan is doing the same. Whom does he
leave his 27 000 party members. We were told by the National Unity
that the party has so many members.
To mention numbers: before the 2007 elections PAP was saying it had
about 400 000 members. During the elections PAP received 200 000
votes. This time PAP didn't wish to mention any number. They said that
the party is a living organism, people come and go...
Perhaps, people only come to Orinats Yerkir Party. It turned out they
have more members than RPA. RPA has 135 000 members, while OYP has
more than 150 000. At least they say so.
In general, more than half of Armenia's population is party members:
by the results of the opinion polls only among ten parties carried out
by us it turned out that the sum of the numbers of the members of all
of them reaches 1 mln, while there are tens of parties registered in
Armenia.
From: Baghdasarian
http://www.yerkirmedia.am/?act=news&lan=en&id=5872
17:20 . 17/03
It will become known just in a few days how many parties will
participate in the May 6 parliamentary elections: the deadline for the
parties to submit their proportional lists to the Central Electoral
Commission is March 22.
However, it is clear already today that the number of the parties
participating in the election fight will be three times less as
compared to that number in 2007. They are still 9-RPA, PAP, ARF-D,
Orinats Yerkir Party, ANC, Heritage Party, Free Democrats, Democratic
Party, Communist Party, against more than twenty in 2007. The parties,
which participated in the 2007 elections exist now, too. Some of them,
People's Party headed by Tigran Karapetyan, for example, Union for
Self-Determination (AIM) headed by Paruyr Hayrikyan, New Times Party
headed by Aram Karapetyan decided not to participate in the elections
evaluating the situation and their own possibilities realistically.
The National Democratic Union, National Democratic Party and National
Democrats Alliance will hardly participate: their leaders already hold
posts in the government and in the bodies adjacent to the president.
As to Christian Democratic Party Leader Khosrov Harutyunyan,
Constitutional Right Union Leader Hayk Babukhanyan and Leader of
National Unity Party Artashes Geghamyan will side with the president
personally, without parties: their names will be in the proportional
list of RPA.
Leader of United Labour Party Gurgen Arsenyan will participate in the
elections in PAP's list. If the Christian Democratic Party and
Constitutional Rights Union, which hardly have 3000 members, have
decided not to participate in the elections on their own, it is not
understandable why Artashes Geghamyan is doing the same. Whom does he
leave his 27 000 party members. We were told by the National Unity
that the party has so many members.
To mention numbers: before the 2007 elections PAP was saying it had
about 400 000 members. During the elections PAP received 200 000
votes. This time PAP didn't wish to mention any number. They said that
the party is a living organism, people come and go...
Perhaps, people only come to Orinats Yerkir Party. It turned out they
have more members than RPA. RPA has 135 000 members, while OYP has
more than 150 000. At least they say so.
In general, more than half of Armenia's population is party members:
by the results of the opinion polls only among ten parties carried out
by us it turned out that the sum of the numbers of the members of all
of them reaches 1 mln, while there are tens of parties registered in
Armenia.
From: Baghdasarian