The National Revival Party has been undergoing constant pressure by the Nagorno-Karabakh authorities since it submitted the documents for running in the parliamentary elections, Head of the National Revival Party Hayk Khanumyan has told ArmInfo.
The electoral campaign in Artsakh kicked off on April 1, and the parliamentary election will be held on May 3. 7 parties will take part in the election: Free Motherland, National Revival, Peace and Development, ARF Dashnaktsutyun, Movement-88, the Democratic Party, and the Communist Party of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.
"We were suddenly denied the territory we were leasing for our party's headquarters. We had to urgently find new premises, and now our headquarters is in Alek Manukyan Street in Stepanakert," the oppositionist says, explaining it by the special services' threats against the lease provider and his relatives.
Khanumyan says that the authorities keep hampering the National Revival Party's campaign, threatening its supporters and disrupting the party's meetings with the voters. He lays the responsibility on the NKR President Bako Sahakyan and Head of the NKR National Security Service Arshavir Gharamanyan.
The National Revival party list is led by Hayk Khanumyan. He is followed by political expert Tigran Grigoryan and doctor Nune Melkumyan.
The Parliament of Artsakh consists of 33 deputies, with 22 of them elected under the proportional system and 11 - under the majority electoral system. According to the Electoral Code that came into effect on January 1, the minimum threshold has been reduced from 6% to 5% for parties and from 8% to 7% for party blocs.