At the moment, the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) has summarized the election results from 1942 polling stations, which, although preliminary, will probably not change substantially, judging from the experience of the previous election. According to the preliminary results, the order of parties that got the most votes and will appear in the National Assembly is the following: the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) – 44.05%; the Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) – 30.25%; the Armenian National Congress (ANC) – 7.09%; the Heritage Party – 5.77%; the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) – 5.72%; the Rule of Law Party (RLP) – 5.49%.
This means that only according to the lists for proportional representation, the PAP will have almost 27 MPs in the new convocation of the National Assembly, the RPA 40, the ANC 6-7, the Heritage Party 5-6 and the RLP 5.
In the new convocation of the parliament, the Heritage Party will be represented, according to the list of that party for proportional representation, by Heritage Party leader Raffi Hovhannisyan, Free Democrats Party leader Khachatur Kokobelyan, National Assembly member Zaruhi Postanjyan, member of the Free Democrats Party and former Minister of Foreign Affairs Alexander Arzumanyan, Heritage Party deputy chairman Ruben Hakobyan and Tevan Poghosyan, at best.
Former MPs of this party Stepan Safaryan, Anahit Bakhshyan, Armen Martirosyan, let alone Larisa Alaverdyan will not enter the National Assembly.
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Candidates for MP seats on the ANC list for proportional representation are first President of the Republic of Armenia Levon Ter-Petrossian, People’s Party of Armenia leader Stepan Demirchyan, Republic Party leader Aram Sargsyan, head of the Pan-Armenian National Movement (PANM) executive committee Aram Manukyan, ANC coordinator Levon Zurabyan, Social Democrat Hunchakian Party chairman Lyudmila Sargsyan and editor of Haykakan Zhamanak newspaper Nikol Pashinyan. Certainly, if Ter-Petrossian or, for example, Aram Sargsyan refuse to assume the offices, former Premier Minister of Armenia Hrant Bagratyan and former Deputy Attorney General Gagik Jhangiryan may appear in the National Assembly instead of them.
In the case of the ARF, current MPs Vahan Hovhannisyan, Armen Rustamyan, Artyusha Shahbazyan, also Aghvan Vardanyan and MP Artsvik Minasyan will be in this party’s parliamentary group.
From the RLP, the leader of that party, Secretary of the National Security Council Artur Baghdasaryan, Heghine Bisharyan, Minister of Emergency Situations Armen Yeritsyan, Minister of Agriculture Sergo Karapetyan and Khachik Harutyunyan. Only if Artur Baghdasaryan and Armen Yeritsyan, also Minister Sergo Karapetyan, refuse to assume their offices, Mher Shahgeldyan, Ishkhan Khachatryan and Samvel Tadevosyan may appear in the parliament.
Naira MAMIKONYAN
