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17-602: On 2 April 2017, the alliance participated in the 2017 Armenian parliamentary election with Edmon Marukyan as leader of the alliance and won 9 seats out of 105 in the National Assembly . Prior to the election, the Union for National Self-Determination , another liberal Pro-European party, also wished to join the Way Out Alliance, however their request was never responded too. After parliamentary elections,

34-415: A party receives a majority of the vote but gets less than 54% of the seats, they will be awarded additional seats to give them 54% of the total. If a party wins over two-thirds of seats, the losing parties will be given extra seats reducing the share of seats of winning party to two-thirds. If a government is not formed within six days of the preliminary results being released, a run-off round of voting between

51-528: A single nationwide constituency with an electoral threshold of 5%. However, a referendum in December 2015 approved constitutional amendments reducing the minimum number of seats in the National Assembly to 101, all of which will be elected by party-list proportional representation , with seats allocated using the d'Hondt method and an election threshold of 5% for parties and 7% for multi-party alliances. The ballot paper has two sections; one of which

68-439: Is a closed list of candidates for the party at the national level and the other an open list of candidates for the constituency (of which there are 13) that the voter is voting in. Voters vote for a party at the national level and can also give a preference vote to any of candidates of the same party in a district list. Seats are allocated to parties using the share of the vote at the national level, with half awarded to those in

85-657: The 2018 Yerevan City Council election . Bright Armenia and the Hanrapetutyun Party formed another alliance - Bright Alliance . Meanwhile, Civil Contract formed the My Step Alliance with the Mission Party . The My Step Alliance won the municipal elections and their candidate Hayk Marutyan was appointed as the Mayor of Yerevan. Bright Alliance came in third place, winning 3 seats out of 65 in

102-525: The European Union on signing an Association Agreement along with a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement . 2017 Armenian parliamentary election [REDACTED] CIS Member State [REDACTED] CoE Member State Parliamentary elections were held in Armenia on 2 April 2017. They were the first elections after a constitutional referendum in 2015 that approved reforms for

119-618: The VADs. The VADs provided the possibility for voters to be redirected, in case they were registered in another polling station in the same TEC, and this was observed in 55 polling stations." Closed list Condorcet methods Positional voting Cardinal voting Quota-remainder methods Approval-based committees Fractional social choice Semi-proportional representation By ballot type Pathological response Strategic voting Paradoxes of majority rule Positive results Closed list describes

136-593: The Yerevan City Council. The Way Out Alliance's ideology was based on liberalism . The three parties, especially Bright Armenia and Hanrapetutyun, are considerably pro-European and support Armenia's European integration . In terms of foreign relations of Armenia , the alliance stated that Armenia's decision to join the Eurasian Economic Union was wrong and had a negative impact on the country. The alliance proposed to renegotiate with

153-655: The alliance participated in the 2017 Yerevan City Council election . The alliance's candidate for Mayor of Yerevan was Nikol Pashinyan . However, the alliance won only 14 seats out of 65 in the Yerevan City Council and Nikol Pashinyan gave up his mandate of City Council and continued his work in the National Assembly as an MP. The alliance supported the goals of the 2018 Armenian Revolution and actively participated in street protests supporting Nikol Pashinyan. The alliance did not participate in

170-401: The country to become a parliamentary republic . The result was a victory for the ruling Republican Party of Armenia , which won 58 of the 105 seats in the National Assembly . At the time of the previous elections in 2012, the National Assembly had 131 seats, of which 41 were elected in single-member constituencies by first-past-the-post voting and 90 by proportional representation in

187-595: The first time in Armenian elections, a voter authentication system was used. On election day, all voters were identified through the use of Voter Authentication Devices (VADs), which contained an electronic copy of the voter lists. Voters' fingerprints were also scanned and the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) stated that it would conduct cross-checks to identify potential cases of multiple voting if any complaints were raised. The introduction of

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204-564: The introduction of the VADs was welcomed by most IEOM interlocutors as a useful tool for building confidence in the integrity of election day proceedings. However, they mentioned in the final report that the late introduction of the VADs could have led to a limited time for testing of equipment and training of operators, stating "Observers noted some problems with scanning of ID documents and fingerprints; however, this did not lead to significant disruptions of voting. IEOM observers noted 9 cases of voters attempting multiple voting that were captured by

221-419: The national list and half to those who receive the most preference votes in the district lists. Four seats are reserved for national minorities ( Assyrians , Kurds , Russians and Yazidis ), with parties having separate lists for the four groups. A party list can not include over 70% of representatives of the same sex, and any there cannot be four consecutive members of one sex on a nationwide party list. If

238-407: The seats allocated to that party in the elections, so that the candidates positioned highest on this list tend to always get a seat in the parliament while the candidates positioned very low on the closed list will not. However, the candidates "at the water mark" of a given party are in the position of either losing or winning their seat depending on the number of votes the party gets. "The water mark"

255-732: The technology was supported by the opposition and civil society groups. In February 2017 the CEC tested the new devices, which were provided by the UNDP electoral assistance project, funded by the European Union, United States, Germany, United Kingdom and the Armenian government. According to final reports from the International Elections Observation Missions (IEOM), "the VADs functioned effectively and without significant issues." Observers reported

272-534: The top two parties must be held within 28 days. A party winning the run-off will be given the seats required for a 54% majority, with all seats allocated in the first round are preserved. The following parties and electoral alliances participated in the election: The OSCE criticised the election by saying it had been tainted by vote-buying, and pressure on civil servants and employees of private companies. Transparency International, along with various other organizations, confirmed cases of bribe distribution. For

289-682: The variant of party-list systems where voters can effectively vote for only political parties as a whole; thus they have no influence on the party-supplied order in which party candidates are elected. If voters had some influence, that would be called an open list . Closed list systems are still commonly used in party-list proportional representation , and most mixed electoral systems also use closed lists in their party list component. Many countries, however have changed their electoral systems to use open lists to incorporate personalised representation to their proportional systems. In closed list systems, each political party has pre-decided who will receive

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