6 Political Parties Can Overcome 5% Threshold to Get into Parliament: Forecast

In the current situation, there are two powerful players in Armenia — the Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) and the Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) — then comes the Armenian National Congress (HAK) and then the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun, or ARF-D), Heritage Party and the Rule of Law (Orinats Yerkir) party, said Director of the Sociometr Independent Sociological Center, sociologist Aharon Adibekyan, speaking about the May 6 parliamentary elections to reporters in the Armenian capital today.

Adibekyan pointed out that these political parties have their own clearly defined, stable electorate and are able to pass the 5% threshold. The only question that remains now is how they can secure more votes.  Read more... (333 words)

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