The new law "On Local Self-Government in Yerevan" and the May 31 elections of Aldermen's Council are the first step towards political reforms, David Harutyunyan Head of parliament's Standing Committee on State-Legal Affairs, said. Mr. Harutyunyan also stressed the importance of organizing all local-self government elections simultaneously at the successive stage of political reforms. "Political reforms are aimed at creating powerful political parties in Armenia. If, undertaking certain commitments in some community, a party achieves success, it can propose more ambitious projects during parliamentary elections. If a party fails to achieve success in the given community, it is unlikely to receive votes in subsequent parliamentary elections.

In the meantime, Mr. Harutyunyan stressed that politics cannot always be unippolar if victory belongs to one party. "At some moment, poles replace each other. Such local self-government model allows for periodic changes, especially considering that major part of Armenia's population lives in Yerevan," Mr. Harutyunyan said, adding that he wasn't optimistic about republicans' glorious victory in upcoming elections.