RA CEC vice-chair holds meeting with OSCE/ODIHR experts 

ArmInfo.  Deputy Chairperson of the Central Electoral Commission of Armenia Nune Hovhannisyan received OSCE/ODIHR experts Ayla van Heel Merdanovich, Dinara  Dildabekova, and Laura Simonyan, who arrived in Yerevan to conduct a  national gender policy assessment.

According to the press service of the Central Election Commission of  Armenia, Hovhannisyan welcomed the guests to Yerevan, expressing her  willingness to cooperate further.

The Deputy Chairperson of the Central Election Commission spoke about  an amendment to the Constitutional Law on the Electoral Code,  introduced in 2024, according to which female representatives who  withdraw their candidacies must be replaced exclusively by persons of  the specified gender, otherwise the mandate is considered vacant.

Hovhannisyan also presented some statistics regarding the presence of  women on the Central Election Commission. Specifically, according to  her, four of the seven members of the Central Election Commission are  women, as are 44 of the 66 employees. The Ethics Committee also  played a key role in changing the gender balance on ethics committees  from the previous ratio of 5:2 to 4:3.