On March 21, the coalition government parties, which constitute the majority of the Armenian Parliament, amidst strongly expressed concerns by the opposition ARF-Dashnaktsutyun and Heritage, approved “The Legal Regime Of The State Of Emergency” draft bill’s amendments. According to the opposition, certain jurisdictions of the Parliament are being restrained by the amended bill and will…
On March 21, under the banner of “Liberty. Justice. Dashnaktsutyun (Federation)” the Armenian Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaktsutyun, unveiled its lists of candidates for the upcoming parliamentary elections slated for May 6. The proportional list comprised of 85 candidates is headed by Bureau member and Head of the ARF-D Parliamentary Faction, Vahan Hovhannesyan. Moreover, eight candidates will run in…
Ankakh.am quotes ARF-D Member of Parliament, Lilit Galstyan’s statement made on the context of March 7, International Women’s Day celebration; “We are living in man’s era and no matter how much democratic, compatible with the rule of law, socialist we say Armenia is, the state keeps being governed with an eastern-clan type, way of thinking,…
On March 10, AYF Armenia’s seminar on “Women’s role in politics” took place at the organization’s premises. Keynote speakers were ARF-D Member of Parliament Ruzan Arakelyan and Socialist International’s Vice-President Maria Titizian. Although women are more than half of the population and 70% of them are of higher education still very few women engage in…
On March 7, on the occasion of International Women’s Day the ARF-D organized a ceremony to award seven women for their contribution in different aspects of social life in Armenia. The event took place at Ani Hotel, downtown Yerevan. The logo reflected the evening’s main point; “They are Present”. Head of Center for disabled children…
According to www.aravot.am, Vahan Hovhannesyan, Head of the ARF-D Parliamentary Faction stated that the advantage is on the coalition government parties’ side because on one hand they have armed some single-seat constituency candidates with administrative levers and on the other, they are distributing capitals into the 40 single-seat constituencies. Hovhannesyan pointed out how difficult it…
The opposition Armenian Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaktsutyun said on Friday that it could ask the Constitutional Court to rule on the legality of a controversial bill that allows the government to use the armed forces to enforce a state of emergency. The party’s parliamentary leader, Vahan Hovhannesyan, said Dashnaktsutyun lawmakers will consider trying to lodge such an…
Today, the Parliament of Armenia voted against ARF-D and Heritage (Zharangutyun) parties’ proposition about adopting a 100% proportional electoral system, by 56 votes against, 30 for and 4 abstentions, www.7or.am reports. The voting was scheduled to take place yesterday but it was postponed because of the limited number of Parliamentarians attending the sitting. The debate…
During an open discussion organized by the “Politlogos” political scientists’ union, the Chairman of the ARF-D Bureau, Hrant Margaryan said that the authorities must understand that there is no disaster in a change of power through elections. “I believe that one has to want to achieve a change through elections, and elections are far more…
ARFD Member of Parliament, Ara Nranyan was invited as one of the guest speakers of a public discussion event organized by the Group for the Defense of the Diaspora Investors, held on February 24 at the Armenia-Marriott hotel. According to www.lragir.am Nranyan stated that presently there is no provisional policy for Diaspora investors as is…
