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Political parties and blocs spend millions of drams in their parliamentary election campaigns. Factor.am presents how much money the political forces have raised for their election funds as of June 11, and how much of that sum they have spent as of that day.
The forces that have spent the most during their campaigns are the Civil Contract party, the I Have Honor bloc and the Armenia bloc. The CP headed by Nikol Pashinyan has raised 257 million drams (about US $ 490,000), of which it has already spent 168 million drams (about US 4320,000). Robert Kocharyan’s Armenia bloc has spent 166 million drams (about US $316,000) of 220 million drams (about US $419,000) they have on their election fund , and the I Have Honor bloc, led by Artur Vanetsyan, has spent 133 million drams (about US $253,000) out of 215 million drams (about US $410,000).
Unlike these three forces, Gagik Tsarukyan’s Prosperous Armenia party has spent quite little on the campaigning: only 55 million drams (about US $105,000) out of 55.6 million drams (US $106,000).
Edmon Marukyan’s Bright Armenia party has spent 25.8 million drams (about US $50,000) out of 47.8 million drams (about US $91,000), the Armenian National Congress has spent 34.4 million drams (US $65,500)out of 40.8 million drams (US $78,000). The Our Home is Armenia party, whose candidate for prime minister is Tigran Urikhanyan, has spent 48.9 million drams (about US $91,000) so far. The Babajanyan-Shirinyan bloc of democrats has spent the entire amount of about 19 million drams (about US $36,000).
As of June 11, the Citizen’s Decision, Verelk, the Azatakan party and the European Party of Armenia have not deposited money on their respective election fund.
As of June 11, the Freedom party and the National Democratic Alliance have not spent any of the money on their electoral funds.
Davit Sanasaryan’s Sovereign Armenia party has deposited 100,000 drams (about US $200) and spent 60,000 drams.
In total, the 24 forces have raised 961.5 million drams (about US $1.83 million) to their electoral funds, of which 697.6 million drams (about US $1.33 million) were spent.
