State-legal Standing Committee chairman urges to back amended Electoral Code

No one says that the rating system was a very bad one thus it should be changed, chairman of the NA’s State-Legal and Human Rights Protection Standing Committee Gevorg Kostanyan said at the NA today.

“Rating system has already done its work and may continue it in future as well, but now with political purposefulness proportional election system has been chosen, thus the adoption of the amendments will be important regarding the promotion of creation of party system,” he said.

Kostanyan stressed that these changes are necessary for Armenia to promote party, political system.

He did not exclude the possibility of again passing to majority or rating system in the next election cycle.

“It is not excluded. It will be agreed on the created political and party systems in the country,” Kostanyan said, offering to back the amended Electoral Code.