YEREVAN. – Armenia’s Central Electoral Commission excluded 5 candidates from proportional lists on its session on Tuesday.

There are withdrawals from the proportional list of opposition Heritage Party. The CEC excluded Yervand Zurabyan and David Arakelyan from the list. They both are members of the Free Democrats Party and are friends of Ararat Zurabyan.

According to the rumors, Ararat Zurabyan has serious controversies with Heritage Party because of the joint pre-election list. He himself was not included in the list.

As Armenian News-NEWS.am informed earlier, the leader of Heritage Party Raffi Hovhannisian met Ararat Zurabyan and they had an open discussion, Raffi Hovhannisian told Armenian News-NEWS.am.

According to him, their meeting took place in a positive atmosphere and not otherwise.

Opposition Heritage Party is a liberal party founded in 2002. The leader is the first Armenian Foreign Minister Raffi Hovannisian.

Heritage and Free Democrats Party are running for the parliament with joint proportional list. 

The proportional list of the party includes members of extra-parliamentary opposition Free Democrats Party and civil society representatives.

Heritage has also nominated MP candidates with the majority election system.