YEREVAN. – During the upcoming parliamentary elections Armenia’s Communist Party will poll 15 percent of the votes, the first Secretary of the party’s Central Committee Ruben Tovmasyan said at a press conference on Monday.

Tovmasyan also stressed that they do not trust the results of public opinion polls according to which the Communist Party will get only 3-4 percent of votes. The surveys are conducted on the order.

The Communist Party of Armenia is running for the parliament jointly with the Progressive United Communist Party.

In the period of Armenia’s independence the party was presented in the parliament in 1991-2003. Ruben Tovmasyan is first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Armenia. The party’s mottos are ‘Nation wins if Communists win’ and ‘Socialism, homeland, victory.’

The party’s proportional list includes 75 names.