ABSURD, IMITATION BUT NOT REFORM
Support A1+!Members of extra parliamentary parties are disappointed in the amended Electoral Code.
«As a matter of fact there are no principal differences between the acting and amended Electoral Code. There are no obvious changes as regards the suffrage and electoral system», second secretary of the Communist party Frunze Kharatyan says. Powerful Fatherland party is as well discontent. In their opinion no reformation took place and today's Electoral Code conflicts with the Constitution, as the latter formulates the authorities of the juridical system.
Chairman of Powerful Fatherland party Vardan Vardapetyan hints at the new order of formation of the election commissions. «We have 170 judges and actually 90 of them should participate in the work of the election commissions. Thus, it turns out that the judge should abandon his work and joint the election commission. There are plenty of violations fixed in each commission and the judge from the polling station should sit into the judge's chair and take a decision. It's absurd», he says.
The Communist party considers that the situations has become more complicated. «What do the courts have to do with the election commissions. Actually, at present the juridical bodies take more active part in the election process than the parties and states bodies do», Frunze Kharatyan says.
By the way, all the extra parliamentary forces note the importance of the formation of the election commissions, since in Armenia the final outcome of the elections is still decided in these commissions. The political forces not presented in the parliament hold the opinion that in order to preserve balance the commission should involve representatives of all the parties participating in the elections. «Otherwise, the whole process is a mere imitation», they say.
Lena Badeyan
