ArmInfo. As of current moment, no party has has submitted application for participation in elections assigned for April 2. This was stated by Tigran Mukuchyan, the head of Central Electoral Commission, during his conversation with journalists.
He stated also that does not share the point of view regarding new electoral procedures being unclear for ordinary voters. "This is allegory. There are innovative procedures - particularly, not to gather the vote bulletins all together after the voting, those identifications, implementation of envelopes etc. In this respect wehave developed a special video, which is already available at CEC website. Besides, when the candidacy proposals are launched, we will start a more active information campaign," Mukuchyan said.
CEC Head referred also to the rating based electoral lists and called out to forget the "rate-based" term. "This is not rate-based but territorial. At every electoral site republican and territorial lists. Republican lists will comprise two parts, one of which will be the list of ethnic minorities.," Mukuchyan said. He also told about votes calculation tools and mentioned that in the first turn will be defined those who crossed 5% and 7% thresholds, and based on that the quotes of mandates will be distributed. According to him, those will be distributed in equal parts between republican and territorial candidates. " I the case of territorial lists, the calculation proceeds from the number of votes. Hence, in this manner the number of mandates to be rendered to any party at this area will be calculated," Mukuchyan said