YEREVAN. - Armenia must change to a 100-percent proportional election system forthwith, parliamentary opposition ARF Dashnaktsutyun Party’s Supreme Body member, MP Armen Rustamyan stated during Friday’s conference jointly held by ARF Dashnaktsutyun and parliamentary opposition Heritage Party. He added that this is why the two parties introduced a bill to that effect.     

“If the [parliamentary] majority wishes, the electoral system can change completely,” Rustamyan noted, and added: “It can change fully, [and] without getting in the way of holding the upcoming [parliamentary] elections.” 

“There are no fundamental disagreements with respect to the electoral systems. All agree, but one says ‘we will pass to it later,’ whereas the others demand that the change be adopted immediately,” Armen Rustamyan maintained.     

In his words, Armenia’s authorities need to prove whether they truly want democratic elections in the country. “If the authorities do not adopt the change, they will exclude themselves from the political processes,” Rustamyan argued.