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On March 22 within the NA “Open Lesson programme the NA Deputy Speaker Eduard Sharmazanov hosted a group of students from Yerevan State, Armenian-Russian Slavonic and Gladzor universities.

Welcoming the students the NA Deputy Speaker urged them to be unconstrained, promising to be sincere.

The young people were more interested in pre-electoral processes, the preconditions of holding free and fair elections, the bases of making up pre-electoral lists, the degree of women’s involvement in them.

One of the students was interested in the NA Deputy Speaker’s opinion on the increase of the women’s number in the parliament, and how the existence of the representatives of performing art, sport and other spheres in the parliament was justified. Mr Sharmazanov has noticed that the parliament is not only a political body, but also a representation one, where the representatives of different layers of the society should have a seat and will present the problems of their sphere. Touching upon the increase of the number of women in the electoral lists Mr Sharmazanov has said that he is against any quota and artificial separations, as in the Armenian environment the woman, mother permanently had their unique, important role.

The students also addressed questions concerning the pre-electoral and post-electoral elections. Referring to the reasons of negative phenomena coming across with the above-mentioned processes, Mr Sharmazanov also presented the achievements recorded in the republic during the last years, the steps taken towards provision of plurality and the authorities’ efforts to eradicate the negative phenomena.

The NA Deputy Speaker greatly highlighted the activeness of civil society in building democratic country, the resoluteness of possessing its voting and the voter’s conscience that every vote is decisive.

Wounding up the talk and thanking the students for interesting questions Mr Sharmazanov has noticed that in their name he sees the generation of independence with new way of thinking and civil posture.