Ruling party rep: Threshold for PAP to enter RA NA should have been 8  or 10%, not 4%

ArmInfo.The threshold for the Prosperous Armenia Party to enter the National Assembly should have been 8 or even 10%, not 4%. This was stated by Suren Grigoryan, a representative of the Civil Contract Party, in the Constitutional Court.

"Let me explain why? Because this list actually includes  representatives of three different parties. For example, Martun  Grigoryan is also on it. He is non-partisan, but he represents the "I  Have the Honor" faction in the National Assembly. In other words,  this political force is the fourth political entity, and in this  case, the 10% threshold for entering parliament should be applied,"  he said.

Suren Grigoryan believes that the Constitutional Court's powers in  discussing this dispute are not so broad.  "But if we get to that  point, I would ask that this issue be discussed as well," Grigoryan  noted.

According to the final results of the parliamentary elections in  Armenia, only three political forces are entering the country's  parliament: Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's Civil Contract party, as  well as two pro-Russian parties - billionaire Samvel Karapetyan's  Strong Armenia and former President Robert Kocharyan's Armenia bloc.  According to the Central Election Commission, 49.75% of voters voted  for the Civil Contract party, giving it 64 seats, while Strong  Armenia received 23.27% (29 seats), and the Armenia bloc received  9.92% (12 seats). The Central Election Commission claims that  businessman Gagik Tsarukyan's Prosperous Armenia party, like 14 other  political forces participating in the elections, failed to clear the  4% threshold for entering parliament, garnering 3.9893% of the vote.  Seven political forces are challenging the election results in the  Constitutional Court of Armenia. The ruling Civil Contract party is  acting as a third party.