Azg

Headline: Election lists were registered for the nominated 6 parties and one coalition (01.05.2009)
On April 30 Central Election Commission registered the electoral lists of all 7 political parties. The registered parties are: Armenian Republican Party (176 candidates), Prosperous Armenia (116 candidates), ARF Dashnaktsutyun (50 candidates), Rule of Law party (71 candidates), People’s Party (20 candidates), Armenia’s Labor and Socialist Party “HASK” (29 members), Armenian National Congress (164 members).

Hayots Ashkhar

Headline: About the Dangers of Competition Between Partners (01.05.2009)
Author: Gagik Mkrtchyan
The author is concerned about tensions between the Governing coalition partners – Armenian Republican Party and Prosperous Armenia. The concern is about an increasing rift between them, resulting from their tendency to criticize each other during Yerevan municipality elections campaign. The author suggests that the coalition could collapse because of the rivalry, and the opposition parties might benefit from that.

Headline: Election Campaigning or Political Demeanor?
Author: N. Grigoryan
The article has identified some issues discussed at CEC April 30 session. The representative of Heritage party in CEC raised concerns about the decision of CEC to register ARF party candidate Artsvik Minasyan, suggesting that as he was not registered as a resident of Yerevan, he could not contend for the position of Mayor.
Another issue was the campaigning rules for those candidates, who were civil servants by the time of campaigning. CEC decided that according to the law those candidates should take a formal leave of absence during the campaign period. Other issues raised were about the fact that the authorities were using their incumbent position to campaign before the official start of the campaigning period, as well as about the abuse of administrative resources by the authorities.

Aravot

Headline: How Aharon will be punished (06.05.09)
In program on Shant TV station, Prosperous Armenia Party head, Gagik Tsarukyan announced that Aharon Adibekyan’s survey do not correspond to reality, and added if “number one” sociologist can publicly prove the figures of the survey, he would give him 1 million dollors, in case he will fail to prove, Tsarukyan noted “we know the ways to punish”.

Aravot

Headline: They run the campaign without registering election funds (08.05.09)
Four political forces out of seven registered for Yerevan Municipal elections have not established elections funds. According to “Noyan Tapan”, Prosperous Armenia Party, Republican Party and Armenian National Congress have established their election funds and have transferred on accounts 31 million 875 thousand AMD, 2 million 300 thousand AMD, and 360 thousand 500 AMD accordingly,. However, the newspaper mentions that, the mentioned parties have not spent money from their accounts, though have actively started the pre-election campaign, as well as Orinats Yerkir Party and Armenian Revolutionary Federation have also started the campaign without establishing election funds.