Citizens “Elect” NA President

CITIZENS “ELECT” NA PRESIDENT
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[06:38 pm] 22 May, 2006
The RA NA was deprived on its President today. The day of the election
of a new President is not known yet.
Neither are the candidates for the post known.
According to the Parliament regulations the deputies are to elect a
President. And whom do the citizens of the country prefer? We tried
to find out the answer to this question through a poll.
535 citizens participated in the poll. The majority (15%) voted
for leader of the National Unity Artashes Geghamyan. Present deputy
President of the NA Vahan Hovhannisyan received 12% of the votes. Head
of the United Labor Party faction Gourgen Arsenyan received 10%
of the votes.
The rest of the votes were distributed as follows: head of the Justice
bloc Stepan Demirchyan – 9%, NA deputy President Tigran Torosyan –
8%, Arthur Baghdasaryan – 5% and head of the group People’s Deputy
Karen Karapetyan 0 2%.
17% of the participants of the poll prefers a candidate different
from those mentioned, and 22% preferred to answer “None of them”.