By empty (8/8/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
At its first session on 7 August, Armenia's newly constituted Central Election Commission scheduled presidential elections for 19 February 2003 and parliamentary elections for 25 May 2003, RFE/RL's Yerevan bureau reported. The nine members of the reconstituted commission were named earlier that day. Three of them, including previous Chairman Artak Sahradian, were nominated by President Robert Kocharian, and six by political parties represented in parliament.