The parliamentary election in Armenia will be held on May 6, 2012. Nine political parties will take part in the polls. VK asked several experts to comment on the campaign and the possible results of the vote.
Alexander Iskanderyan, the head of the Caucasus Institute, told VK that the competition is fair and real. He believes that from 4 to 6 parties will enter the parliament in the result. They are the Republican Party, the Flourishing Armenia party, the Armenian National Congress, the Dashnaktsutyun party and possibly the Heritage party and the Orinats Yerkir party.
Alexander Markarov, the head of the Armenian office of the CIS Countries Institute, told VK that the number of voters still undecided for whom they will vote constitutes up to 30 per cent, which will definitely affect the results of the polls.
Andrey Areshev, a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences' Center for Caucasus and Central Asia Studies, believes that the sitiuation in Armenia is tense. That is why it's hard to predict any certain results, he says. However it's pretty clear that all four major political forces will enter the parliament.
