The role of women’s organizations. From theory to Political Practice

In “Heritage” party list, which in this year’s elections is part of Ohanian-Raffi-Oskanian alliance we will not see names of Zaruhi Postanjyan and Anahit Bakhshyan.

As in 2012, the parliamentary elections this year became a serious challenge for the “Heritage” party. Five years ago recognized members of Heritage in recent years have  actively been fought in all fields –  Anahit Bakhshyan, Armen Martirosyan and Stepan Safaryan  – for some reasons have not appeared transitory placesof the  list, and a member of the Heritage party Larisa Alaverdyan was generally excluded from the list.

This year the situation is slightly different. Raffi Hovannisian, in order to keep the party the in a political field decided to take part in the elections in an alliance with a team Vardan Oskanian and Seyran Ohanyan. Some political technologists believe that it was the best decision for the “Heritage”. But few said that the Alliance for the party lost two key players, Mrs. Zaruhi Posanjyanin and Anahit Bakhshyan, who, given the inglorious experience of previous elections, were against the  idea of alliance, and considered “Heritage” to go alone to the polls.

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