“Women make 38% of the Democrats’ party list.  Who are they? 

There are three women in the top ten national list of “Free Democrats” party submitted to the Central Election Commission there. Overall, 38 out of 101 candidates or 38% are female.

Our list includes women of different professions, journalists, programmers, pedagogues, accountants, lawyers and entrepreneurs. There are also women who are currently unemployed. Mostly young women are involved », – WomenNet.am- Anzhela Khachatryan told a deputy chairman of the party.

According to him, the party attracted a large number of women, not by force of law, but willingly. “During the discussion of the Electoral Code the head of the Party Khachatur Kokobelyan raised the issue of women’s representation in parliament suggesting to give legal force to provision offering 70/30 ratio  during the parliamentary elections”, – she said.

Let’s note that the list includes both non-party candidates and women members of the “Free Democrats”, and “Freedom” parties.

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