YEREVAN. – The discussions on passing to a 100-percent proportional election system, in the lead-up to the parliamentary elections, were nothing but a political PR campaign for the opposition, the ruling coalition’s Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) MP Hovhannes Sahakyan argued during a press conference on Thursday. He added that this was also demonstrated during Wednesday’s parliamentary hearings devoted to this matter.    

He informed that during the aforesaid hearings he noticed that RPA had the largest representation, whereas the opposition representatives, who were the authors of this initiative, left the Sessions’ Hall, after making their statements, and they did not listen to the view of the ruling party.   

“NGO and other political teams’ representatives were also there, and they, too, left the Hall after [delivering] high-flown speeches,” Hovhannes Sahakyan noted, and he added that the second part of the hearings was held in a half-empty hall.    

Furthermore, in his words, the opposition representatives did not wish to observe the issue from a legal dimension. “This, too, yet again confirms that this simply is a political PR [campaign] in the run-up to the [parliamentary] elections,” Sahakyan concluded.