Why go all proportional?: Ruling party says opposition initiative on scrapping single-mandate districts premature

More than ten political forces in Armenia espouse the passage to a 100-percent proportional system of parliamentary representation, but the ruling party still deems it premature.

The National Assembly of Armenia has 131 seats, with 41 members elected from single-mandate constituencies, or by the majoritarian system as it is called.

Stepan Safaryan, a senior lawmaker of the Heritage Party that has the smallest faction in the National Assembly, presenting the arguments of parliamentary and extra-parliamentary opposition forces, stated that switching to a proportional system of elections is one of the means of having a parliament with more qualified lawmakers.  Read more... (389 words)

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