In the frame of its targeted mission to assess the local by-elections held on 18 September 2016 in a part of Armenia's communities, a 15 member delegation from the Congress, headed by Congress' Rapporteur Liisa Ansala (Finland, ILDG), was deployed in four regions of the country. For Liisa Ansala the improvement of the quality of voters' lists in Armenia is of crucial importance for the trust of citizens in the system: 'Transparency - together with more competition between candidates - is needed to increase the interest of the population in local elections which are currently mainly seen as a formality by the citizens. We will see in how far the new Electoral Code, introducing the proportional electoral system, and the decentralisation reform, which is currently being implemented, will be able to change the situation to the better. 'The detailed Information Report following the Electoral Assessment Mission will be debated in the frame of the 31st Congress Session on 19-21 October in Strasbourg. 

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