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REPUBLICAN ALSO BACKS PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION - MP
11:13 * 21.11.14
The possibility of adopting the 100% proportional representation
system cannot be absolutely denied or ruled out, a lawmaker of the
ruling Republican Party said, stressing the need of considering the
problem in its entirety,
Speaking to Tert.am, Hovhannes Sahakyan reiterated their political
force's earlier statements expressing readiness to support a gradual
shift to the system in light of the increasing number of proportional
seat at the National Assembly. He said the move requires clear-cut
political guarantees as opposed to narrow political interests.
"What we have to do is to draw serious conclusions as a result of
serious debates and try to implement legislative reforms. Hence to
say in a nutshell that we are for or against [the system] is really
difficult," he noted.
Asked what he finds to be the reasonable ratio between proportional
representation and single-mandate seats, the Republican MP said he
believes that it is first of all necessary to analyze the statistics.
"If we look upon the statistics, we can see that the Republican Party
was the initiator of the [process of] reducing the majority seats. And
the proportion today is 41:90," he answered.
Commenting further on the issue, an expert in constitutional
law, Vardan Ayvazyan, said he thinks that the 100% single-seat
representation would work best in bi-partisan systems.
"Let us take the United States [where there are] two parties; two
candidates run in the same constituency and the votes are distributed
correspondingly. In case of a multi-party system, it will not reflect
the views and interests of the given constituency's population," he
said, considering proportional representation ideal for parliamentary
systems.
Armenian News - Tert.am
11:13 * 21.11.14
The possibility of adopting the 100% proportional representation
system cannot be absolutely denied or ruled out, a lawmaker of the
ruling Republican Party said, stressing the need of considering the
problem in its entirety,
Speaking to Tert.am, Hovhannes Sahakyan reiterated their political
force's earlier statements expressing readiness to support a gradual
shift to the system in light of the increasing number of proportional
seat at the National Assembly. He said the move requires clear-cut
political guarantees as opposed to narrow political interests.
"What we have to do is to draw serious conclusions as a result of
serious debates and try to implement legislative reforms. Hence to
say in a nutshell that we are for or against [the system] is really
difficult," he noted.
Asked what he finds to be the reasonable ratio between proportional
representation and single-mandate seats, the Republican MP said he
believes that it is first of all necessary to analyze the statistics.
"If we look upon the statistics, we can see that the Republican Party
was the initiator of the [process of] reducing the majority seats. And
the proportion today is 41:90," he answered.
Commenting further on the issue, an expert in constitutional
law, Vardan Ayvazyan, said he thinks that the 100% single-seat
representation would work best in bi-partisan systems.
"Let us take the United States [where there are] two parties; two
candidates run in the same constituency and the votes are distributed
correspondingly. In case of a multi-party system, it will not reflect
the views and interests of the given constituency's population," he
said, considering proportional representation ideal for parliamentary
systems.
Armenian News - Tert.am