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    NA COMMITTEE ON STATE AND LEGAL ISSUES GIVES POSITIVE CONCLUSION TO LEGISLATIVE PACKAGE ENVISAGING AMENDMENTS AND ADDITIONS TO ELECTORAL CODE

    Noyan Tapan
    May 02 2006

    YEREVAN, MAY 2, NOYAN TAPAN. It will be proposed with the positive
    conclusion of the NA Standing Committee on State and Legal Issues
    to put the legislative package on making amendments and additions
    to the RA Electoral Code on the agendas of the current session
    of the parliament and of the regular plenary sittings starting
    on May 2. The Committee made a decision about it at the April 28
    sitting. The above-mentioned package was worked out by the working
    group involving representatives of all the NA factions and the group
    and was put into circulation on March 17. Besides the Electoral Code,
    the package envisages amendments and additions to the Criminal code
    and the law "On Parties" as well. The goal of the latters is to work
    out effective mechanisms in the struggle against electoral crimes,
    to strengthen the panishment, to raise responsibility of parties in
    an electoral process. The worked out package, in essence, is a result
    of political agreement. However, the "Ardaroutiun" (Justice) faction
    joined the decision with reservations, concerning which the Parliament
    will make a decision at the plenary sitting. According to preliminary
    statement, in the case of ignoring the faction's reservations in the
    draft to be adopted in the first reading, "Ardaroutiun" will refuse
    the co-authorship, taking back the signature. To recap, the faction
    objected to the order of forming electoral commissions, particularly to
    involvement of judges in them. It also presented proposals of forming
    the parliament with 100% proportional electoral order, holding parallel
    electronic votion in elections and using mechanism of staining voters'
    fingers with ink. It was mentioned at the committee sitting that
    conclusions of experts of the Venice Commission of the Council of
    Europe and the OSCE Democratic Institutions and Human Rights Office
    concerning both above-mentioned package and particularly reservations
    of "Ardaroutiun" are also expected soon. After the NA adopts the
    package in the first reading, the Standing Committee on State and
    Legal Issues intends to initiate enlarged parliament hearings as well.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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