Armenian parliament
| National Assembly Ազգային ժողով, ԱԺ Azgayin Zhoghov |
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| History | |
| Founded | 5 July 1995 |
| Preceded by | Supreme Soviet of the Armenian SSR |
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Speaker
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Galust Sahakyan, Republican
Since 29 April 2014 |
| Structure | |
| Seats | 131 |
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Political groups
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Government:
Opposition and others
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| Elections | |
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90 by Party list PR 41 by constituencies |
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Last election
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6 May 2012 |
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Next election
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2017 |
| Meeting place | |
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| National Assembly Building 19 Baghramyan Yerevan, 0095 Republic of Armenia |
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| Website | |
| National Assembly of Armenia | |
Government:
Opposition and others
The National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia (Armenian: Հայաստանի Հանրապետության Ազգային ժողով, Hayastani Hanrapetyut'yan Azgayin zhoghov or simply Ազգային ժողով, ԱԺ Azgayin Zhoghov, AZh), also informally referred to as the Parliament of Armenia (խորհրդարան, khorhrdaran) is the legislative branch of the government of Armenia.
Before 1995, It was referred to as the Supreme Council of Armenia and formerly known as the Supreme Soviet of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic under Soviet rule.
The National Assembly is a unicameral body. It comprises 131 members, elected for five-year terms: 75 members in single-seat constituencies and 56 by proportional representation. The proportional-representation seats in the National Assembly are assigned on a party-list basis amongst those parties that receive at least 5% of the total of the number of the votes. The current speaker of the National Assembly is Galust Sahakyan.
According to law adopted in 2016 the National Assembly consists of at least 101 seats, but with additional seats allocated it may grow to about 200 seats in extremely rare cases.
Partis need to pass 5% and coalitions 7% threshold respectively to be included in mandate distribution.
Election system reserves 50% of votes casted in favor of each party to be distributed via party lists. Out of these 4 mandates will be assigned to national minorities in first place (provided they are included on party lists). A party list can not include over 70% of representatives of the same sex and its every 4 consequetive entries shall include members of both sexes.
Another 50% of votes received by each party will be distributied among their territorial lists submited in 13 electoral disctricts.
If neither party wins over 50% of mandates second round of elections will be carried out. After first round two best-placed parties are allowed to the second round. All mandates received as per first round are be preserved. The party which wins second round of elections will be given additional number of mandates to reach 54% all seats.
If any party or coalition wins over 2/3 of mandates in the first round of elections sufficient additional mandates will be distributed among all other parties to ensure that at least 1/3 of all seats are given to parties other than the winning one.
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