Are Political Parties Open?

October 26, 2006

From September 10 to October 10, 2006 the Freedom of Information Center requested information from 23 political parties registered in Armenia to provide their programs and 2005 financial reports. The aim of the information request was to find out whether the parties realize their responsibilities fixed in their programs before starting their election campaign.

14 parties out of 23 provided full information to the request of FOICA, 3 of which provided partial answer. 9 political parties didn’t respond at all. To see the list of the inquiry, see below.

Politial Parties	Reply	Time Period of Reply
Country of Law	complete	4 days	hard copy
National Democr Party	complete	4 days	hard copy
Republic Party	complete	4 days	electronic
Dashink	program, zero finantial report	6 days	electronic
National Unity	program (from internrt site), for financial report referred to State Tax Service	6 days	hard copy
Heritage	program (from internrt site), for financial report referred to the Ministry of Justice and State Tax Service	7 days	hard copy
People’s party	complete	7 days	hard copy
Social Democrat Hunchakian Party	complete	7 days	hard copy
Armenian Aryan Party	program (also charter), zero financial report	7 days	electronic
Armenian National Movement	program, for financial report referred to the Ministry of Justice and Taregir newspaper	7 days	hard copy
Republican Party of Armenia	complete	8 days	electronic
Armenian Revolutionary Federation	program, for financial report referred to Yerkir weekly	10 days	hard copy
Prosperous Armenia	program is not approved yet, zero financial report	12 days	electronic
National Democratic Party	complete	13 days	electronic
Union of National Self-Determination			no reply
Youth Party of Armenia			no reply
United Labour Party			no reply
Comunist Party of Armenia			no reply
Liberal Democratic Union			no reply
Ramkavar Azatakan Party			no reply
Constitutional Right Union			no reply
Justice			no reply
People’s party			no reply