Ashot Ghulyan reelected as chairman of Karabakh parliament
21.05.2015,
17:36
Ashot Ghulyan has been reelected as chairman of the National Assembly of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic during the first session on Thursday. He was backed by 23 lawmakers of the new parliament elected in May 3 elections. Five lawmakers voted against.
STEPANAKERT, May 21. / ARKA /. Ashot Ghulyan has been reelected as chairman of the National Assembly of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic during the first session on Thursday. He was backed by 23 lawmakers of the new parliament elected in May 3 elections. Five lawmakers voted against.
Vahram Balayan from the Karabakh chapter of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation/ Dashnaktsutyun was elected vice-speaker of the parliament. Ghulyan has served as speaker of the Karabakh parliament since 2005.
According to Karabakh’s Central Election Commission (CEC), over 70 percent of 100,000 eligible voters cast ballots in the elections. The new parliament consists of five parties.
The largest force in the 33-member legislature is the Free Fatherland Party that won 47 percent of votes counted under the system of proportional representation. The other parties are Free Fatherland, the Artsakh Democratic Party (AZhK), the Karabakh chapter of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun).
Free Fatherland, the AZhK and Dashnaktsutyun that were the only parties represented in the old Karabakh parliament are now joined by two opposition parties: Movement-88 and National Revival. -0-
