ELEVEN CANDIDATES TO RUN IN REPEAT ELECTION IN ARMENIAN CONSTITUENCY
Arminfo
18 Jun 07
Yerevan, 18 June: "Eleven candidates will be running for parliament
in repeat parliamentary election in single-seat constituency No
15," Tsovinar Khachatryan, the press secretary of Armenia’s Central
Electoral Commission, has told Arminfo.
She said that the following individuals have been nominated to run
in the repeat election: Khachik Vaghinaki [Vaghinakovich] Manukyan
from the ruling Republican Party of Armenia; Mnatsakan Mnatsakanyan,
who is not a member of a party but is supported by the ruling
Prosperous Armenia party; Raffi Hovhannisyan, the leader of the
opposition Heritage party; Gurgen Shahinyan nominated by the Armenian
Revolutionary Federation – Dashnaktsutyun which is cooperating with
the ruling coalition; and seven other individuals, who are not members
of political parties and were nominated by initiative groups.
Among them, Mekhak Mkhitaryan, Emin Karapetyan, Vahagn Petrosyan, Arsen
Vardanyan, Tigran Manukyan, and two namesakes of the RPA nominee –
Khachik Mkrtichi [Mkrtichevich] Manukyan and another Khachik Manukyan,
whose patronymic will not be mentioned in ballot papers because he
has an old Armenia passport.
Thus, a technology of nominating people with same names has been
used against the winner of the 12 May parliamentary election, Khachik
Manukyan, apparently to confuse people who are going to vote for him.
The repeat election will be conducted in constituency No 15 in
Aragatsotn Region on 26 August. The nominees are supposed to submit
their documents to the regional electoral commission by 1800 local
time on 12 July. The registration process will be held on 17-22 July,
campaigning will be held on 23 July – 24 August.