PARLIAMENT DEPENDS ON PEOPLE'S VOTE
Laura Grigorian: «Mr. Nasibian, the nomination of candidates is over. What are the results?» Sergey Nasibian: «According to the schedule of preparing and holding the election, on April 5-10 the nomination of parliamentary candidates from constituencies and by party tickets took place. For 22 constituency seats 127 candidates have been nominated from 22 election districts. On average six were nominated from each election district. 57 of 127 were nominated by political parties, 70 by civil undertaking, by the decision of the undertaking groups. The number of nominees for the election was especially high in Stepanakert; 79 persons were nominated from 8 constituencies, which is on average 10 nominees from each election district. In several election districts there are 10-11 nominees and in the election district N 5 there are 14. In the regions the average number of nominees per election district is 2 - 3 or 4, the highest number of nominees is 6. 8 of 9 political parties registered and operating in the Republic of Nagorno Karabakh will stand for the election. Six of them will run by separate party tickets, two will run for the election by a common party ticket. These are the ARF Artsakh and «Movement 88» which will be presented by the name «ARF - Movement 88». Of the political parties «Armenakan» did not nominate candidates on party tickets, only from constituencies.» L.G.: «What is the reason for the rise in the number of nominees?» S.N. «In fact, against the previous election the number of nominees has increased by 30 - 40 per cent. The reason may be the development of democratization in the republic. Actually, the political parties were given the opportunity, and the citizens feel that they also can be elected and take part in the governance of the country.» L.G.: «What else could you tell about the preparation for the election?» S.N.: «In the period between April 10 and May 5 the Central Election Committee and district committees will check the documents of the nominees. Then on May 10 - 15 the candidates will be registered. The candidates nominated from constituencies and on party tickets can start the election campaign on May 17. At present the documents are checked for falsification and correspondence to the Election Code.» L.G.: «What means of campaigning will be used?» S.N.: «There are different means of election campaign: meetings with voters, debates, the mass media. Special order of using the mass media for electioneering will be maintained. The constituency candidates will have free and paid television time and space in the republic newspaper. The candidates on party tickets will not have this opportunity. In the Republic of Armenia, by the decision of the Central Election Committee the candidates may run political ads on private TV channels. There are no private TV channels in our country, so we are looking for other ways. Maybe the party candidates will also be allowed to use the public television and newspaper but not free of charge.» L.G.: «What measures does the CEC take to prevent electoral corruption?» S.N.: «Bribing as well as promises of bribe is a crime. If such cases are revealed in election committees and during other election procedures, the relevant bodies will be involved, and actions will be suited. The nominees and later the candidates must be aware of this not to resort to such steps.» L.G.: «What is the peculiarity of this election? How will it differ from the previous elections?» S.N.: «First of all, this will be the first election after the adoption of the common election code. We used to have different election codes for presidential, parliamentary and local governmental elections. Now we will be guided by one election code. The election system was also changed: there will be the Central Election Committee, and district election committees instead of the former regional and town committees. In each election district (22) there is an election committee (22) and district election committees. The order of constituting district election committees has changed as well: three of the members are appointed by the NKR president, the present parliamentary factions of the National Democratic Party and the Armenian Revolutionary Federation appoint two members each. The district election committees will be formed 20 - 21 days before the election. Each district committee will appoint a person in each district. According to the new election code, the results of presidential, parliamentary and local governmental elections will be considered valid if turnout is above 25 per cent. There is innovation in the order of the electoral registers. Formerly, we included in the registers the persons who were residents or were temporarily living in the given place. By the new order only the citizens who are residents of the given area will be included in the electoral registers. The work in this direction has already begun; this will be the most difficult task in this election because there has been considerable move within the republic because of the war and other circumstances. The lists of voters will be available at the voting stations 45 days before the election. And another thing too: formerly different signs were used to vote, such as «v», «x», «yes». Now only «v» will be considered valid. Besides, the persons on military service cannot vote for constituency candidates. They will vote for party candidates only, which means that the soldiers can vote at the nearest voting station to the military unit.» L.G.: «What measures will you take to provide fair and transparent elections?» S.N.: «The CEC committee has worked out and published all the definitions and orders for fair, free and transparent elections. Certain work has been done with the district committees. After the stage of registering candidates is over, we will hold a consultation with the candidates in order for them to be aware of the maintained order. The rest depends on the district election committees. After setting up the committees we will hold seminar-consultations with them to clarify the procedure of voting.» L.G.: «Are there many members of parliament among the nominees?» S.N.: «Almost 70 per cent of the members of the present parliament will stand for the election. There are members of parliament who will run for the elections for constituency seats and by party tickets at the same time.» L.G.: «What is the motivation for becoming a member of parliament?» S.N.: «I think there are persons who have certain experience as parliamentarians and want to continue. There are also people who do not imagine themselves in that position. I must add that the percentage of votes has no importance, the candidates who will get the highest number of votes will be elected.» L.G.: «Do you mean that not all the candidates are worth of the title of Member of Parliament?» S.N.: «It is the people that should give an evaluation and not us. According to the law, we admitted the documents which corresponded to the order. If there are no mistakes, we will register them as candidates.» L.G.: «Can we be sure to tell after the elections that we elected a worthy parliament which will efficiently operate for the sake of development and stability in the country?» S.N.: «The preliminary acquaintance with the nominees and their files shows that among the 127 constituency nominees and nominees on party tickets there are people of different occupations, people involved in politics, who are worthy of being elected, and if they are elected, the parliament will take a step ahead. Therefore, everything depends on people, whether they will manage to make a right choice to form a parliament which will stabilize the political plane of the country and strengthen the foundations of democracy in the republic.»
- LAURA GRIGORIAN
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