With a population of only 3 million people, Armenia is one of the smallest countries in Europe. But it has a sizable place in spiritual history: most historians believe that in 301 AD, it became the first country in the world to adopt Christianity.
I think for the citizens of Armenia the priority were not Western, pro-Russian, pro-European positions, the primary requirement was developing political, economic, social issues. If there is intention to improve the situation in this field, it isn’t obligatory that the political power was Western or pro-Russian.
Central Electoral Commission (CEC) of Armenia has calculated preliminary results of parliamentary elections held on April 2 based on data received from all 2009 polling stations.
“Results of Armenian Renaissance Party were a bit unexpected, I thought by administrative leverages they’ll enter the parliament, however, RPA was strict and votes or Artur Baghdasaryan’s party weren’t sufficient. The electorate of Dashnaks increased by 2% after Ter-Petrosyan’s interview.”
We ended April 2 by making a step forward in the implementation of our promise given upon their tombs. We promised them to establish a firmer, stronger and developing state and we will do that.We will do that all together.
“It’s important to state on failure of Western powers. There was much noise about this, many resources and technological efforts have been wasted. However, people of Armenia have manifested historical wisdom, it chose the development vector, which throughout recent years has been actively developed by the leading political party,” Alexey Martynov said.
“I’d like to state on Armenia’s Electoral Code reforms and particularly on such a new process, which was named as ‘preferential voting system’. Elections are held by proportional order, however de facto we deal with some proportional component, we know there are polling stations, and as much as I understand, the very voting in favor of exact people seriously contributed to such victory of the leading Republican party.”
“The political parties to enter the National Assembly and will attempt to rejoice, it should be qualified as feast during plague,” Artur Sakunts, head of Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly Vanadzor Office, told reporters today.
“I never speak of politics, although I have numerous friends in politics and during meetings with them we speak of art, literature, architecture, music. As for results of parliamentary elections I accept and welcome any election result, which took place by free manifestation of people’s will. Then, I don’t particularly sympathize people, who leave the country and start criticizing politics and the country.”
” Our mission comprised 172 observers—MPs, diplomats, CEC members, experts, who implemented observation in Armenia’s all polling stations and regions,” Lebedev said.
