{"id":27447,"date":"2016-04-25T13:40:43","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T13:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am?p=27447"},"modified":"2016-05-12T10:10:16","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T10:10:16","slug":"quota-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/quota-4\/","title":{"rendered":"David Harutyunyan. \u201cI am much more optimistic about chances of women being elected.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.womennet.amwp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/yntr-orensgirq.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Today first reading on the draft of the new Electoral Code launched in the Parliament. Let\u2019s recall that the bill, which was submitted for formal consideration, was subjected to certain changes that occurred as a result of the public consultation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The project&#8217;s main speaker- Chief of Government Staff David Harutyunyan, Minister- \u00a0presenting the changes, especially stopped on changes affecting women \u2013 quotas supporting women. He said that there are important innovations in this direction.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>David Harutyunyan said that he is more optimistic about chances of women being elected, and believes that at least 80 percent of women present there can be selected by regional lists. &#8220;I think the quota should be increased step by step and the offered the option will \u00a0change the situation to a great extent, as in case of the small fractions at least 20%\u00a0 of women\u2019s representation (1 women) is guaranteed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>However, it is possible to discuss offer on 30\/70 and it is possible to fix in the Electoral Code, at the same time providing 25 percent by transitional provisions &#8211; for the coming elections.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to the procedure, at the first and second reading mode MPs represent their recommendations, as a result of which the project can be subject to significant changes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The debates on the Electoral Code Continues \u2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Full text in<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am%D5%A4%D5%A1%D5%BE%D5%AB%D5%A9-%D5%B0%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%A9%D5%B5%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%B6%D5%B5%D5%A1%D5%B6-%C2%AB%D5%A5%D5%BD-%D5%B7%D5%A1%D5%BF-%D5%A1%D5%BE%D5%A5%D5%AC%D5%AB-%D5%AC%D5%A1%D5%BE\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Armenian<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am%D5%A4%D5%A1%D5%BE%D5%AB%D5%A9-%D5%B0%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%A9%D5%B5%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%B6%D5%B5%D5%A1%D5%B6-%C2%AB%D5%A5%D5%BD-%D5%B7%D5%A1%D5%BF-%D5%A1%D5%BE%D5%A5%D5%AC%D5%AB-%D5%AC%D5%A1%D5%BE\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"newstxt\">&nbsp; Today first reading on the draft of the new Electoral Code launched in the Parliament. Let\u2019s recall that the bill, which was submitted for formal consideration, was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,132,129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-119","category-women-and-elections","category-129"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}