YEREVAN, MARCH 19, NOYAN TAPAN. A number of Armenian public organizations will give free legal consultation to RA citizens on the threshold of the May 1 parliamentary elections and after them, within the framework of the cooperation entitled "Legal Initiative: Elections 2007." Natalia Martirosian, the Co-Chairwoman of the Helsinki Citizens' Assembly Armenian Committee stated about it at the March 17 gathering of the mentioned NGO heads. In her words, the process of holding the elections, as a rule, affects on formation of the civil society. That's why, as N. Martirosian mentioned, they intend to inform politically active citizens about their electoral rights and methods of protecting those rights with the help of discussions and courses. N. Martirosian stated that to implement legal consultation, a hot line will function from April 1 to June 1 in the whole territory of the RA. The hot line phone number will serve "as a mean of getting information concerning alleged law violances and falsifications." The "Youth Center of Democratic Initiatives," "Armenian Center for Human Rights Protection after A.Sakharov," Gyumri "Progress" University Legal Clinics, "Against Legal Wilfulness" NGO and other organizations are among the founder NGOs of the initiative.

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