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    ABSURD, IMITATION BUT NOT REFORM

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    | 11:48:24 | 18-06-2005 | Politics |

    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
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