Process of printing voting bulletins launched in ArmeniaMay 3, 2007 - 15:38 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - On May 2 the Central Electoral Commission of Armenia approved the form of bulletins for parliamentarian elections. According to the Armenian Police there are 2. 301. 662 registered voters in the country and the CEC decided to issue 2.38 million bulletins for proportional electoral system. On May 3 at 00:01 local time two publishing houses in Yerevan will launch the process of printing bulletins. According to the approved schedule this process must be over by May 9. Voting bulletins will have different appearance depending on the electoral system: bulletins for proportional system will be yellow and majority system bulletins will be white. For the first time in Armenia before casting the bulletins in the transparent ballot boxes they will be placed in an envelope. However taking into account the fact that the proportional list is rather large- 22 parties and one block- bulletins will be folded in four, IA Regnum reports. Top stories The Cabinet of Ministers decided on Thursday, November 9 to allocated AMD 120 million to arrange the gathering. Michael Roth believes sanctions must be put on the table after Baku‘s ethnic cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh. The Yerevan City Council has elected Tigran Avniyan from the ruling Civil Contract as the mayor of the Armenian capital. The Armenian Parliament on Tuesday, October 3 voted to ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Partner news | Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Aliyev says no need for mediators in Armenia-Azerbaijan process Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev believes that Baku and Yerevan do not mediators in the process of normalizing relations. Aram I supports Karekin II’s “patriotic position” Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia Aram I has expressed support for the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. U.S. believes peace is “possible” in South Caucasus The United States continues to believe that peace is possible in the South Caucasus, Vedant Patel said. |