Amendments were made to the Electoral Code, which entered into force on February 7. According to the amendments concerning the National Assembly regarding elections, the temporary threshold of parties has decreased to 4 percent, the threshold of alliances has increased to 7-8 percent and 10 percent. CEC President Vahagn Hovakimyan said that during the press conference.
“Alliances consisting of up to 3 parties are under the 8 percent threshold, and alliances consisting of 3 or more parties will have to overcome a temporary threshold of 10 percent,” he said.
The other change is that in the case of parties, the amount of bail was reduced from 10 million to 7.5 million, in the case of alliances it was set at 15 million.
“This was done with the intention that the legislation would contribute to the enlargement of political forces, political forces of the same ideology would be more inclined to unite, and the parties would become larger,” he said.
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