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    ARMENIAN WOMEN MUST BE MORE ACTIVE IN COUNTRY'S POLITICAL LIFE, NA VICE-SPEAKER SAYS

    ARKA News Agency, Armenia
    March 13 2006

    YEREVAN, March 13. /ARKA/. Armenian women must be more actively
    involved in the country's political life, Vice-Speaker of the RA
    Parliament Vahan Hovhanesyan stated at a conference "Women's role in
    the formation of civil society."

    According to him, Armenian women must enjoy freedom ensured by our
    society and actively join political parties. "Armenia's legislation
    grants women full right to take part in the country's political life,
    but many of them are not yet psychologically ready to exercise this
    right," Hovhanesyan said.

    He also pointed out the importance of more women becoming
    parliamentarians. He added that the reason why the number of women
    parliamentarians is not large is the parliamentary election system
    in Armenia.

    "Many women find it difficult to run for Parliament by the
    single-mandate election system, because election campaigns require huge
    funds. Nor can they run for Parliament by the party-ticket system,
    because in this case they must be members of political parties,"
    Hovhanesyan said.

    Only seven women are presently members of the Armenian Parliament:
    Alvard Petrosyan (ARF Dashnaktsutyun), Hermine Nahdalyan (Republican
    Party), Yehine Bisharyan (Law-Governed Country Party), Hripsime
    Avetisyan (United Worker's Party), as well as Emma Khudabashyan,
    Hranush Hakobyan and Armenuhi Hovhannisyan (all without party
    affiliation).

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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