Daily says three committees in Armenian parliament to be controlled by opposition
21.12.2018,
16:59
Armenia’s acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s My Step alliance that won the December 9 snap parliamentary elections, confirmed that Ararat Mirzoyan will resign as first deputy prime minister to become chairman of the National Assembly.
YEREVAN, December 21, /ARKA/. Armenia’s acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s My Step alliance that won the December 9 snap parliamentary elections, confirmed that Ararat Mirzoyan will resign as first deputy prime minister to become chairman of the National Assembly.
Two other senior members of the alliance, Lena Nazaryan and Alen Simonyan, will take over as Mirzoyan’s deputies.
Under Armenian law, the third post of deputy parliament speaker is to be given to the parliamentary opposition- either to a representative of the Prosperous Armenia (BHK) or Bright Armenia, which will have 26 and 18 parliament seats respectively.
A local daily ‘Hraparak’ says in its today’s issue that the parliamentary committees on European integration, financial and budgetary issues, as well as protection of human rights will be also controlled by the opposition.
The daily claims that the committee on financial and budgetary issues, in all likelihood, will be headed by Mikael Melkonyan from the Prosperous Armenia, while the committee on European integration will be controlled by another member of the party Naira Zohrabyan.
The newspaper also writes that yesterday Edmon Marukyan, the leader of the Bright Armenia urged the authorities to ignore the D'Hondt method when allocating parliamentary committees (D'Hondt method or the Jefferson method is a highest averages method for allocating seats, and is thus a type of party-list proportional representation), and entrust them more than one committee, because "only then we can talk about democracy and the counterbalance to the authorities." -0-
Two other senior members of the alliance, Lena Nazaryan and Alen Simonyan, will take over as Mirzoyan’s deputies.
Under Armenian law, the third post of deputy parliament speaker is to be given to the parliamentary opposition- either to a representative of the Prosperous Armenia (BHK) or Bright Armenia, which will have 26 and 18 parliament seats respectively.
A local daily ‘Hraparak’ says in its today’s issue that the parliamentary committees on European integration, financial and budgetary issues, as well as protection of human rights will be also controlled by the opposition.
The daily claims that the committee on financial and budgetary issues, in all likelihood, will be headed by Mikael Melkonyan from the Prosperous Armenia, while the committee on European integration will be controlled by another member of the party Naira Zohrabyan.
The newspaper also writes that yesterday Edmon Marukyan, the leader of the Bright Armenia urged the authorities to ignore the D'Hondt method when allocating parliamentary committees (D'Hondt method or the Jefferson method is a highest averages method for allocating seats, and is thus a type of party-list proportional representation), and entrust them more than one committee, because "only then we can talk about democracy and the counterbalance to the authorities." -0-
