2017 Armenian parliamentary election
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Parliamentary elections will be held in Armenia in May 2017. They will be the first elections after the constitutional referendum in 2015 that approved reforms to become a parliamentary republic.
Electoral system
At the time of the previous elections in 2012, the National Assembly had 131 seats, of which 41 were elected in single-member constituencies by first-past-the-post voting and 90 elected by proportional representation in a single nationwide constituency with an electoral threshold of 5%.[1] However, a referendum in 2015 approved constitutional amendments reducing the number of seats in the National Assembly to 101, all of which will be elected by proportional representation.[2]
Campaign
The following parties won seats in the 2012 elections and will, most likely, participate in the 2017 election:
- Republican Party of Armenia
- Prosperous Armenia
- Armenian National Congress
- Armenian Renaissance
- Armenian Revolutionary Federation
Extra-parliamentary parties that will possibly participate in the 2017 election:
- Armenian Communist Party (participated in all parliamentary elections since 1990)
- Civil Contract[3]
- Bright Armenia[4]
- Hayazn[5]
- Alliance[6]
Parties, that possibly will not participate in the 2017 election:
References
- ^ Electoral system IPU
- ^ Armenia’s National Assembly Approves Proposed Constitutional Reforms The Armenian Weekly, 5 October 2015
- ^ The Pashinyan's Civil Contract party will participate in the NA upcoming elections
- ^ The Bright Armenia will participate in the next parliamentary elections
- ^ The Hayazn in the 2017 elections will participate with "no-no" policy
- ^ The Alliance will participate in the 2017 parliamentary elections
- ^ The Heritage, possibly, will not participate in the 2017 elections
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