Yelk nominates Pashinyan as candidate for post of prime minister
23.10.2018,
16:07
The Yelk parliamentary faction has nominated today Armenia’s acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan as a candidate for the post of prime minister, the head of the faction Lena Nazaryan said in the parliament.
YEREVAN, October 23 /ARKA/. The Yelk parliamentary faction has nominated today Armenia’s acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan as a candidate for the post of prime minister, the head of the faction Lena Nazaryan said in the parliament.
“We have nominated the candidacy of the acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. As we have already noted, the nomination, of course, is formal aimed at ensuring the procedures provided for by the Constitution,” she said.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan resigned October 16 to clear way for the dissolution of the parliament and holding early parliamentary elections on December 10. On the same day, Armenian President Armen Sarkissian accepted the resignation of the government.
Under the Armenian Constitution, early elections are held if lawmakers fail twice within 14 days to appoint a prime minister. Lena Nazaryan urged today her fellow lawmakers not to elect prime minister. –
Pashinyan was elected as PM by the country's National Assembly after former president turned-prime minister Serzh Sargsyan resigned on April 23 under immense public pressure provided by weeks of nationwide protest against Sargsyan and his Republican Party.0-
“We have nominated the candidacy of the acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. As we have already noted, the nomination, of course, is formal aimed at ensuring the procedures provided for by the Constitution,” she said.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan resigned October 16 to clear way for the dissolution of the parliament and holding early parliamentary elections on December 10. On the same day, Armenian President Armen Sarkissian accepted the resignation of the government.
Under the Armenian Constitution, early elections are held if lawmakers fail twice within 14 days to appoint a prime minister. Lena Nazaryan urged today her fellow lawmakers not to elect prime minister. –
Pashinyan was elected as PM by the country's National Assembly after former president turned-prime minister Serzh Sargsyan resigned on April 23 under immense public pressure provided by weeks of nationwide protest against Sargsyan and his Republican Party.0-
