RPA has always supported 100% proportional election system - Gagik Minasyan.

Changing to proportional election system is discussed ever since Armenia’s independence, stated Gagik Minasyan, the ruling coalition’s Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) MP, commenting on the matter of passing to a 100-percent proportional election system.

“RPA has supported the idea that the number of proportional [election] seats must be increased in the parliament, by slowly reducing the majority [election system] seats,” he said.

But, as per Minasyan, the point we have reached at this time is very crucial. “Because, by reducing the majority seats, it became apparent that our smallest territorial-administrative unit, the Vayots Dzor Region, is represented by just one MP. And the future reduction in majority seats in the parliament will result in a territorial-administrative unit which will not have its own MP,” Gagik Minasyan maintained.

And as an alternative, Minasyan pointed to having a two-chamber parliament, which, however, he opposes to.