FIVE ARMENIAN PARTIES PASS PARLIAMENTARY THRESHOLD – EXIT POLL
Journal of Turkish Weekly
May 7 2012
Five Armenian parties will pass the parliamentary threshold, according
to results of an exit poll by the Gallup International Association.
Eight parties and one party alliance are participating in the
elections. Parliamentary threshold is five percent for a party and
seven percent for a bloc.
According to 20:00 local time [18:00 GMT] exit poll results,
the Republican Party of President Serzh Sargsyan and the Prosperous
Armenia party, both in the governing coalition, are clear leaders with
43.3 percent and 29.3 percent, respectively. Centrist Orinats Erkir
(Rule of Law), the third party in the ruling coalition, is to get
about 6.2 percent.
Other parties that are likely to succeed in the polls are the
opposition Heritage party with 6.5 percent and the Armenian
Revolutionary Federation with 5.2 percent.
It is unclear whether the main opposition force, the Armenian
National Congress of ex-President Levon Ter-Petrosyan, will pass
the parliamentary threshold. Exit polls give the bloc 6.4 percent,
which is below the required threshold of seven percent.
Vote count is currently underway and results only from 35 polling
stations are available so far. According to the early results, the
Republican Party gets 71.8 percent and Prosperous Armenia – 13.21
percent. The Armenian Revolutionary Federation is third with 7.77
percent. Other parties got less than 3 percent.
According to the Central Election Commission results, more than 1.5
million, or 62.33 percent of almost 2.5 million eligible voters cast
their ballot in Sunday’s polls.
The voting was monitored by more than 31,000 domestic observers and
647 international monitors.
The Armenian police said it received 62 reports about possible election
violations; all of them are being probed and three criminal cases
have already been launched. Police also investigates 43 reports in
internet and media about suspected violations.
Preliminary results are expected within 24 hours after the vote,
while final results are due in one week.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress