On the day of the snap elections to the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia, world famous Armenian musician Serj Tankian today posted the following statement on his Facebook page at midday:
Very proud of my brothers and sisters in Armenia who will be going to the polls to vote for a new parliament after having freed themselves of a corrosive, unjust, corrupt regime earlier this year.
Since early this morning, 168.am has been receiving alarms about electoral processes that are proscribed by the Electoral Code of the Republic of Armenia.
First President of Armenia Levon Ter-Petrosyan (in office 1991-1998) has cast his vote in the early election of parliament.
Former President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan cast his ballot today in the 29/45 polling station in Dzoraghbyur – a village 10 kilometers east of Yerevan.
Nine political parties and two alliances are running for parliament.
The Court of Appeals has issued its verdict former President Robert Kocharyan’s trial over his measure of restraint.
The narrow format session was followed by an extended one. The session participants summed up the EAEU annual activities during Russia’s chairmanship, highlighted the key sectors for further deepening the Eurasian integration, such as trade, energy and digital agenda.
In the first ten months of 2018 trade turnover growth between Armenia and EEU countries has amounted 15% against the same period of 2017. In the same time period, export volumes of EEU countries grew more than 22%, while Armenia’s general exports volumes 11,7%.
According to the recent polls conducted in Armenia, 75.7% of voters say they will definitely participate in the December 9 early parliamentary elections, 14.6% say they will rather participate and 5.7% say they will not participate in the elections, Gallup International Association’s Armenia member MPG director Aram Navasardyan told reporters, presenting the results of the surveys conducted from December 1 to 4.
