YEREVAN. – Forty-one majority-election seats are really too much for Armenia’s National Assembly (NA), political scientist Stepan Grigoryan argued during a press conference on Monday.  

He noted, however, that the problem is not in the election system, since, for example, it is difficult to imagine a more complicated and meaningless election system than in US, but the latter was able to go very far in terms of democracy. 

Grigoryan also expressed a view that the changes in the Electoral Code are having an adverse effect on the holding of the elections. 

The political scientist also stressed that it would be much better for the transitional countries to either discard the majority election system altogether, or to further reduce the number of majority-election seats at parliament.    

Stepan Grigoryan maintained that 41 majority-election seats are too much for Armenia. 

He also noted that an attempt will be made, in the country’s upcoming NA elections, toward bringing the oligarchs and the representatives of the criminal world into the parliament.