The opposition Armenian Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaktsutyun said on Friday that it could ask the Constitutional Court to rule on the legality of a controversial bill that allows the government to use the armed forces to enforce a state of emergency. The party’s parliamentary leader, Vahan Hovhannesyan, said Dashnaktsutyun lawmakers will consider trying to lodge such...
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Today, the Parliament of Armenia voted against ARF-D and Heritage (Zharangutyun) parties’ proposition about adopting a 100% proportional electoral system, by 56 votes against, 30 for and 4 abstentions, www.7or.am reports. The voting was scheduled to take place yesterday but it was postponed because of the limited number of Parliamentarians attending the sitting. The...
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During an open discussion organized by the “Politlogos” political scientists’ union, the Chairman of the ARF-D Bureau, Hrant Margaryan said that the authorities must understand that there is no disaster in a change of power through elections. “I believe that one has to want to achieve a change through elections, and elections are far...
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ARFD Member of Parliament, Ara Nranyan was invited as one of the guest speakers of a public discussion event organized by the Group for the Defense of the Diaspora Investors, held on February 24 at the Armenia-Marriott hotel. According to www.lragir.am Nranyan stated that presently there is no provisional policy for Diaspora investors as...
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In its continuous efforts to disseminate information about social democracy in Armenia, the Hrayr Maroukhian Foundation, in cooperation with the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, has begun translating the FES Academy of Social Democracy’s “Economics and Social Democracy,” (Simon Vaut et al.). Last year the Hrayr Maroukhian Foundation, in cooperation with the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, launched this series of translations...
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A standing committee of the Armenian parliament held on Wednesday, February 15, hearings on a major voting reform which the country’s leading opposition forces say would make the upcoming parliamentary elections more democratic. The committee on legal affairs agreed to discuss the idea of holding the elections only on a party-list basis despite its...
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During today’s press briefings at the Parliament, the Head of ARF-D Parliamentary Faction Vahan Hovhannesyan said that the adoption of the law “On Private Guard Activity” was very important and reminded that it was the ARF-D that first introduced it around 2000 concerned about the unacceptable accumulation of these services around the rich elite....
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According to www.7or.am, the government refused today, ARF-D and Heritage (Zharangutyun) parties’ proposition about discussing the passing to a 100% proportional electoral system. The First Deputy Justice Minister Gourgen Mouradyan commenting on the two oppositional parties’ initiative said that holding such discussions now would be practically pointless because those discussions require a long time....
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The draft law “On Amending the Legal Regime of the State of Emergency” was submitted on Wednesday February 8, by the Justice Minister for debate in the first reading of the Parliament. Taking the floor, ARF-D Member of Parliament Lilit Galstyan said that while this is a very important draft law still there are...
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During a Q&A session with the government, ARF-D Member of Parliament Ruzan Arakelyan raised the Artsvashen village, now under azeri occupation, former residents’ housing issue. Arakelyan, stressed the fact that the residents which have settled down Chambarak city, have bought on special loans, mostly wooden or clay houses. “Twenty years later, Artsvashen people are...
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