Elections in Armenia: 5 parties overpassed 5-percent barrier

[Emil Lazarian]

PanARMENIAN.Net

Parliamentarian elections in Armenia: 5 parties overpassed 5-percent barrier
13.05.2007 13:45 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ According to the latest information provided by the
CEC of Armenia, five political forces, including Republican Party of
Armenia, ARF `Dashnaktsutyun' extraparliamentary pro-governmental
`Prosperous Armenia', as well as opposition parties `Orinats Yerkir'
and extraparliamentary `Heritage' overpassed the 5-percent barrier in
the parliamentarian elections of Armenia. United Labor Party is also
close to the barrier. At 13:00 local time (12:00 Moscow time) the CEC
published the following interim results of tabulation:

Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) (leader Prime Minister Serzh
Sargsyan) - 428 120

`Prosperous Armenia' Party (leader - businessman, MP Gagik
Tsarukyan)-189 580

ARF `Dashnaktsutyun' - 165 464

`Orinats Yerkir' Party (leader is ex-Speaker Arthur Baghdasaryan) - 87
752

`Heritage' Party (leader is ex-Foreign Minister Raffi Hovhannisyan) -
68 601

United Labor Party (leader - MP Gourgen Arsenian) - 54 688

Other political forces are still far away from the 5-percent barrier,
IA Regnum reports.