In case of majority election system, opposition’s victory is ruled out - Armenian opposition member Alexander Arzumanyan.

All figures of the Armenian opposition Free Democrats Party have always stated that they are in favor of 100 percent proportional election system, since the majority election system is a mechanism for rigging the elections, Free Democrats Party member, former FM Alexander Arzumanyan said during a press conference on Wednesday.    

In his turn, the ruling coalition’s Republican Party of Armenia MP Artak Davtyan noted that they favor a mixed election system. “What’s most important for us is that when a transition is being made toward a one-hundred-percent proportional, this causes a political party obsession. The one-hundred-percent proportional election system is not the best one for us. I believe the most acceptable is the relative majority election system, which functions in US, for example,” Davtyan maintained.           

And Alexander Arzumanyan noted: “In non-established, undemocratic countries like ours, the authority tries to reproduce itself. And one of the mechanisms for this is the majority election system. In the case of majority election system, the opposition’s victory is ruled out because, when the number of 41 oligarchs increase, the opposition cannot win, even if it garners seventy percent of the votes.”