A man casts his ballot during a recent election in Armenia
BY HAIG KAYSERIAN
From The Armenian Weekly
On April 2, Armenia will go to the polls to elect a new National Assembly (Parliament).
These elections will be the first conducted since the adoption of a new Constitution, granting unprecedented powers to those who are elected, while votes will be cast under rights and oversights provided by what is a new Electoral Code, adopted by most of the participating political parties and blocs.
This article is written to break through the jargon (you have probably recently heard terms like “rating-ayinâ€
