There won’t be any amendments to voting procedures in the May 6 parliamentary elections in Armenia \u2014 41 lawmakers will be elected by a majority ballot, while 90 will be elected on a party-list basis (proportional representation).<\/p>\n
This was determined after a voting in parliament held earlier today, in which 30 voted in favor of moving to a 100% proportional representation system, 56 voted against and 4 abstained \u2014 thereby leaving the current voting procedure intact.<\/p>\n
Note, in the parliamentary elections, Armenian citizens vote for individual candidates on the majority ballot, but vote for political parties on the proportional ballot. Opposition parties have been pushing for a move to a 100% proportional representation system as they believe the majority seats are biased in favor of larger political groups and oligarchs.<\/p>\n
This latest bill was put to a vote by parliamentary opposition parties Heritage Party and the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun, or ARF-D). Ahead of the vote, Heritage Party MP Larisa Alaverdyan urged deputies to vote in favor of the bill, stressing that the current system supports the strengthening of the existing authorities.<\/p>\n
While voting was taking place inside parliament, demonstrators, mainly supporters of the Heritage Party, ARF-D and the extra-parliamentary opposition bloc Armenian National Congress, continued to protest<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> outside the parliamentary gates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There won’t be any amendments to voting procedures in the May 6 parliamentary elections in Armenia \u2014 41 lawmakers will be elected by a majority ballot…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":164798,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165223"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}