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Armenian National Assembly elects chairpersons of standing committees
The Armenian parliament, dominated by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s Civil Contract party, elected August 12 after 4-day debates chairpersons of 12 standing committees. YEREVAN, August 12. /ARKA/. The Armenian parliament, dominated by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s Civil Contract party, elected August 12 after 4-day ...
08/13/2021Pashinyan's Civil Contract not to form election alliance for snap polls
The Civil Contract party, headed by the acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, will not make an alliance with other parties to run in the early parliamentary elections, scheduled for June 20, Lilit Makunts, the head of the My Step alliance dominating the Armenian parliament, said today. YEREVAN, May 4. /ARKA/ The Civil Contract party, headed by the acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, will ...
05/04/2021Pashinyan on resignation of president and election of new one
... Armenia, the prime minister said that he had not yet discussed the issue with the team. "But it is clear now that we have to discuss this topic in detail and when making decisions we should be guided by the experience of the past 4 years. Yes, the Civil Contract faction in parliament must elect President, but without a parliamentary majority the election is impossible," he stressed. "I believe that it is necessary that the parliament, the government and the president feel united by a common responsibility,’ Pashinyan added. "The ...
01/25/2022Ruling Civil Contract officially nominates Vahagn Khachatryan as candidate for president
... Pashinyan has officially nominated today Vahagn Khachaturyan as a candidate for President of Armenia, Parliament Speaker Alen Simonyan, who will act as president until the election of a new one, told reporters. YEREVAN, February 1. /ARKA/. The ruling Civil Contract party of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has officially nominated today Vahagn Khachaturyan as a candidate for President of Armenia, Parliament Speaker Alen Simonyan, who will act as president until the election of a new one, told reporters. Vahagn Khachatryan is now the Minister of High-Tech Industry. He is not affiliated with a political party. Vahagn Khachatryan was born in 1959 ...
02/01/2022Ruling Civil Contract names its candidate for post of president
... President of Armenia, the daily ‘Haykakan Zhamanak” (Armenian Time) reported. YEREVAN, January 31. /ARKA/. The ruling Civil Contract party of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has named Vahagn Khachatryan as a candidate for the post of President of Armenia, the daily ‘Haykakan Zhamanak” (Armenian Time) reported. Vahagn Khachatryan is now the Minister of High-Tech ... ... Institute of National Economy with a degree in economics. In 1992-1996 he served as Mayor of Yerevan. In 1995 - 1999 he was a parliament member. In 2019-2021 he was a member of Armeconombank Management board. On August 4, 2021 he was appointed Minister ...
01/31/2022Twenty members of newly elected parliament will not take up their seats
... said today that 18 lawmakers elected to the parliament in the June 20 early elections on the ticket of acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s Civil Contract party and two members of the opposition Hayastan (Armenia) alliance will not take up their parliamentary seats. It said the list includes Pashinyan and ex-president Robert Kocharyan, who led the Hayastan alliance. The list of members of the Civil Contract party includes Lilit Makunts, Suren Papikyan, Arayik Harutyunyan, Nikol Pashinyan, Anahit Avanesyan, Romanos Petrosyan, Hovhannes Harutyunyan, Hakob Simidyan, Gnel Sanosyan, Hambartsum Matevosyan, Diana Gasparyan, David Gevorgyan, Narek ...
07/21/2021Ruling majority in Armenian parliament turns down opposition-drafted statement on Shushi Declaration
... One of such points is about the so-called Zangezur corridor (promoted by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev), which calls for providing Azerbaijan a transport corridor through... ... province of Syunik that must be under its sovereignty. Speaking at the meeting of the parliamentary committee on foreign affairs today, Andranik Tevanyan said the declaration... ... against international recognition of the Armenian Genocide. MP Gurgen Arsenyan from the Civil Contract said the Armenian Foreign Ministry has already condemned the Shushi Declaration...
02/21/2022Pashinyan’s Civil Contract wins 53.92% of the vote in snap polls
...,281,911 people who voted in the elections, 687,251 cast their ballots in favor of Civil Contract. 'Thus, in the newly elected parliament, the Civil Contract party will have a constitutional majority and will form a government, " Pashinyan wrote on his Facebook today morning. The Armenia bloc headed by ex-president Robert Kocharyan, gained 21.04% (268,165 votes), the I have the honor bloc (the leader is the former director of the ...
06/21/2021Ruling Armenian party has not chosen a candidate yet to replace president Sarkissian
The Civil Contract party of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan that controls 71 of the 107 seats in the National Assembly is discussing its candidates to replace President Armen Sarkissian who resigned on January 23. YEREVAN, January 27. /ARKA/. The Civil Contract party of Prime Minister ... ... country and the nation,” Sarkissian said. Armen Sarkissian was elected as President in 2018 spring for a seven-year term by the parliament that was dominated at that time by the Republican Party of ex-president Serzh Sargsyan, who became earlier the country’s ...
01/27/2022Alen Simonyan elected speaker of Armenia’s National Assembly
MP Alen Simonyan elected to Armenia’s new parliament in the June 20 early elections on Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s Civil Contract party’s ticket was elected today as Speaker of Armenia’s National Assembly. YEREVAN, August 2. /ARKA/. MP Alen Simonyan elected to Armenia’s new parliament in the June 20 early elections on Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s Civil ...
08/02/2021Armenian opposition calls on international community to punish Azerbaijan for its war crimes
The ruling Civil Contract party in the Armenian National Assembly refused to endorse a statement motioned by the opposition Hayastan (Armenia) alliance as retaliation to a statement adopted by the Azerbaijani parliament on November 8, 2022. YEREVAN, December 2. /ARKA/. The ruling Civil Contract party in the Armenian National Assembly refused to endorse a statement motioned by the opposition Hayastan (Armenia) alliance as retaliation to a statement adopted ...
12/02/2022Russian MP: Pashinyan's Civil Contract party’s win in parliamentary elections will entail least changes in relations between Yerevan and Moscow
... to grow. Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's Civil Contract party on Monday won 53.92 percent of the votes in snap parliamentary elections, according to the results based on ballots from 100 percent of the precincts, the Central Election Commission (CEC) said. Out of 1,281,911 people who voted in the elections, 687,251 cast their ballots in favor of Civil Contract. The Armenia bloc headed by ex-president Robert Kocharyan, gained 21.04% (268,165 votes), the I have the honor bloc (the leader is the former director of the ...
06/21/2021Powers of ruling Civil Contract faction MP Aren Mkrtchyan terminated
The powers of MP Aren Mkrtchyan from the ruling Civil Contract faction have been officially terminated. YEREVAN, September 1. /ARKA/. The powers of MP Aren Mkrtchyan from the ruling Civil Contract faction have been officially terminated. Mkrtchyan submitted his resignation to parliament speaker Alen Simonyan on August 25. Previously, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan had announced that Mkrtchyan would be appointed as the governor of the Lori region. "The parliamentary powers of MP Aren Mkrtchyan, who was elected ...
09/01/2025Three parties have chances to win seats in new Armenian parliament, analyst says
... convene again within one week for another vote. 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. Speaking to a news conference today, Karen Kocharyan said the Civil Contract Party will form the parliamentary majority, while HHK will assume the role of the ‘constructive’ opposition. Kocharyan said he could not say whether ...
11/05/2018Nikol Pashinyan’s Civil Contract party to be involved as third party in a case that will consider opposition’s demand to cancel election results
... Constitutional Court decided to consider the appeals challenging the outcome of the polls submitted by Hayastan and Pativ Unem blocs and the Zartonk and Armenian Motherland parties as one case, since they all relate to the same issue. Nikol Pashinyan’s Civil Contract party that won 53.91% of the votes in the June 20 snap parliamentary elections will control 71 seats in the new National Assembly. The Hayastan (Armenia) alliance, headed by a former president Robert Kocharyan will control 29 seats (21.09% of the votes) and another alliance called Pativ Unem (I Have the Honor), led by Artur Vanetsyan, former chief of the National Security Service, will have 7 seats (5.52%). Under the Armenian election ...
07/07/2021Armenian CEC distributes National Assembly seats
... results of the early parliamentary elections, citing numerous violations during the pre-election period and during the elections. According to the official results announced by the Central Election Commission (CEC), Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s Civil Contract party won almost 53.91 percent of the vote and will retain a two-thirds majority in the Armenian parliament. Ex-president Robert Kocharyan’s Armenia bloc came in a distant second with 21.09 percent, followed by the opposition Pativ Unem alliance led by another ex-president, Serzh Sargsyan which got 5.22 percent. Under the Armenian election law, the threshold ...
06/28/2021Armenian parliament elects Vahagn Khachatryan as president
... of 71 the Armenian parliament, dominated by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s Civil Contract Party, has elected today Vahagn Khachaturian as President in the second round of the secret ballot. YEREVAN, March 3. /ARKA/. By a vote of 71 the Armenian parliament, dominated by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s Civil Contract Party, has elected today Vahagn Khachatryan as President in the second round of the secret ballot. The opposition Hayastan (Armenia) and Pativ Unem (I Have Honor) alliances refused to take part in the elections. In the first round Khachatryan had to garner 81 votes to be elected, however, the ruling ...
03/03/2022Armenian ruling party’s candidate fails to garner enough votes to be elected president
Armenia’s High-Tech Industry Minister Vahagn Khachatryan, nominated by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s Civil Contract Party as a candidate for the post of President, did not garner enough votes in the parliament today to be elected in the first round. YEREVAN, March 3. /ARKA/. Armenia’s High-Tech Industry Minister Vahagn Khachatryan, nominated by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s Civil Contract Party as a candidate for the post of President, did ...
03/03/2022Opposition candidate finally elected deputy speaker of Armenian parliament
... MP, nominated by the opposition Hayastan (Armenia) and Pativ Unem, (I Have Honor) alliances for the post of the third deputy parliament speaker, has been finally elected today morning in the third attempt. YEREVAN, August 6, /ARKA/. Ishkhan Saghatelyan,... ... the new parliament elected in the June 20 snap polls, elected Alen Simonyan representing prime minister Nikol Pashinyan’s Civil Contract party as speaker. Ruben Rubinyan and Hakob Arshakyan from Civil Contract party were elected as his deputies. Armenia’s ...
08/06/2021Armenian opposition to challenge parliament speaker’s election at Constitutional Court
... they will appeal to the Constitutional Court to challenge the results of the election held during the first session of the new parliament on August 2. YEREVAN, August 3. /ARKA/. Armenian opposition alliances Hayastan (Armenia) and Pativ Unem (I Have ... ... session of the new parliament on August 2. The National Assembly elected Alen Simonyan from Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyna’s Civil Contract as speaker. The opposition alliances nominated two Hayastan members elected to the parliament, Mkhitar Zakaryan ...
08/03/2021MP from Civil Contract party Arsen Torosyan submits resignation letter
Arsen Torosyan, a member of the Armenian National Assembly from the ruling Civil Contract party, head of the Health Committee, and a former Minister of Health, has submitted a resignation letter to the Speaker of the Parliament, Alen Simonyan, as announced on the parliament’s website. YEREVAN, August 20. /ARКА/. Arsen Torosyan, a member of the Armenian National Assembly from the ruling Civil Contract party, head of the Health Committee, and a former Minister ...
08/20/2025Opposition MPs will not be stripped of their mandates
The Armenian Parliament’s Council will not ask the country’s Constitutional Court to strip some opposition MPs of their mandates, although ... ... to the parliament. On January 13 the Parliament’s Council decided to postpone discussion of this issue. However, the ruling Civil Contract party said it had decided not to appeal to the court on the issue. The Civil Contract party was going to apply ...
01/23/2023Armenia’s new parliament convenes for maiden session
Armenia’s new parliament (the 8th since the country became independent from former Soviet Union in 1991), elected in the June 20 snap elections,... ... the regulations, the first meeting is chaired by Knyaz Hasanov, the oldest MP who is from Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s Civil Contract party. The National Assembly comprises the Civil Contract party, which won 53.91% of the votes (71 seats), the ...
08/02/2021Macron: only political settlement of Karabakh conflict can guarantee lasting stability in South Caucasus
... common values of peace, solidarity and friendship with the peoples of the region," the message reads. According to the official results announced by the Central Election Commission (CEC) on Monday morning, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s Civil Contract party won almost 54 percent of the vote and will retain a two-thirds majority in the Armenian parliament. Ex-president Robert Kocharyan’s Armenia bloc came in a distant second with 21 percent, followed by the opposition Pativ Unem alliance led by another ex-president, Serzh Sargsyan which got 5.2 percent. Although Pativ Unem failed to clear the 7 percent threshold ...
06/25/2021Gurgen Arsenyan's seat in parliament taken by Armenuhi Ghazaryan
Armenuhi Ghazaryan has replaced Gurgen Arsenyan as a new member of Armenian Parliament from the ruling Civil Contract party of PM Nikol Pashinyan. YEREVAN, August 15. /ARKA/. Armenuhi Ghazaryan has replaced Gurgen Arsenyan as a new member of Armenian Parliament from the ruling Civil Contract party of PM Nikol Pashinyan. The replacement was approved ...
08/15/2024Ruling party asks parliament speaker to consider removing opposition MP as chairperson of committee
The Civil Contract party of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has officially asked parliament Speaker Alen Simonyan to consider removing opposition MP Taguhi Tovmasyan from Pativ Unem alliance from the post of chairperson of the parliamentary committee on protection of human rights and public affairs. YEREVAN, July 10. /ARKA/....
07/10/2023Armenian ruling party nominates its candidate for post of CEC chair
The ruling Civil Contract party of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan that controls 71 seats in the 107-member National Assembly has ... ... or engage in political activities, he asked the Civil Contract party to suspend his party membership. Hovakimyan also asked parliament chairman Alen Simonyan to relieve him as deputy chairman of the parliament committee on state and legal issues. Hovakimyan ...
10/03/2022Armenian parliament turns down opposition proposal to task a standing committee to deal also with Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
The pro-government majority in the Armenian National Assembly represented by the Civil Contract party of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, turned down today an opposition proposal to task the standing committees ... ... dealt with by a joint commission chaired by the heads of the National Assembly of Armenia and Artsakh, created on the basis of a parliamentary agreement between the parliaments of the two republics and another part is within the powers of other parliamentary ...
09/13/2021Political analyst says another early election possible in Armenia in 12-18 months
... problematic for the authorities to continue to exist, since all the problems remain. "At the moment they have bureaucratic legitimacy, but the split in society will probably grow," Iskandaryan said. Acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s Civil Contract party won 53.91% of the votes in the June 20 snap parliamentary elections and will control 71 seats in the new National Assembly. The Hayastan (Armenia) alliance, headed by a former president Robert Kocharyan (21.09% of votes) will control 29 seats and another alliance called Pativ Unem (I Have the Honor) (5.22%), led by Artur Vanetsyan, former chief of the National Security Service, will have 7 seats. International election observers ...
07/12/2021Armenian parliament votes to dismiss two opposition lawmakers as deputy speaker and head of committee
By a vote of 66 to no votes against and abstentions Armenia's National Assembly dominated by the ruling Civil Contract party of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has dismissed today National Assembly's vice-speaker Ishkhan Saghatelyan,... ... Hakobyan was dismissed as chairman of a National Assembly's standing committee on economic issues. An emergency session of the parliament convened on Friday by the Civil Contract's faction was not attended by opposition lawmakers from Hayastan and Pativ ...
07/01/2022Ruling Armenian party fails parliament session requested by opposition ‘to express Armenia’s position on Shushi Declaration
MPs from the ruling Civil Contract party of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan that controls 71 seats in the 107-member Armenian parliament, did not turn up at today’s sitting of the parliament convened by the opposition Hayastan alliance ‘to express ... ... Armenia’s territorial integrity and security. One of such points is about the so-called Zangezur corridor (promoted by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev), which calls for providing Azerbaijan a transport corridor through Armenia’s province of Syunik that ...
02/23/2022Vote recount adds hundreds of additional votes to Pashinyan’s party and Kocharyan’s alliance
... Central Election Commission said the vote recount will continue today in polling stations number 9, 34 and 23. According to the official results announced by the Central Election Commission (CEC) on Monday morning, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s Civil Contract party won almost 54 percent of the vote and will retain a two-thirds majority in the Armenian parliament. Ex-president Robert Kocharyan’s Armenia bloc came in a distant second with 21 percent, followed by the opposition Pativ Unem alliance led by another ex-president, Serzh Sargsyan which got 5.2 percent. Although Pativ Unem failed to clear the 7 percent threshold ...
06/24/2021Armenia's ruling party decides against asking Constitutional Court to deprive opposition of their parliamentary mandates
Armenia's ruling Civic Contract party of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan that controls the majority of seats in the parliament will not ask the Constitutional Court to deprive tens of opposition MPs of their mandates, Ruben Rubinyan, deputy speaker of the parliament, told reporters on Thursday. YEREVAN, July 14. /ARKA/. Armenia's ruling Civic Contract party of ...
07/14/2022Parliament speaker: it will be very difficult if Civil Contract fails to win 50%+ of votes in Yerevan Council of Elders elections
"I think it will be very difficult for us if such a situation arise," Armenian National Assembly Speaker Alen Simonyan said when asked if new security problems would arise if the Civil Contract party of PM Pashinyan failed to win 50%+ votes in the Yerevan Council of Elders elections. . YEREVAN, September 17. /ARKA/. "I think it will be very difficult for us if such a situation arise," Armenian National Assembly Speaker ...
09/17/2023Civil Contract nominates Pashinyan for post of prime minister of Armenia
Armenia’s Acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s Civil Contract party that won the June 20 early parliamentary elections with 53.91% of the vote and controls 71 seats in the 107-member National Assembly has nominated him for ... ... Pashinyan announced snap election followed months of protests against his government after he signed a statement together with the presidents of Russia and Azerbaijan on November 9, 2020 to end six-week war with Azerbaijan in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone,...
08/02/2021Armenian opposition to boycott presidential election
... alliances in the Armenian National Assembly will not nominate candidates for the post of president. YEREVAN, February 4. /ARKA/. The opposition Hayastan (Armenia) and Pativ... ... to influence domestic and foreign policies of the country. On February 1, the ruling Civil Contract party of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan officially nominated non-partisan... ... Armenia changed the governance system of the country from a semi-presidential to a parliamentary republic in 2018 April. The president of Armenia, whose powers are significantly...
02/04/2022Pashinyan: Armenian presidential election scheduled to take place in March
... resignation of President Armen Sarkissian. In a January 23 resignation statement, Sarkissian said the country's constitution did not give him sufficient powers to influence the country’s domestic and foreign policies. Pashinyan said today that his Civil Contract party (it controls 71 seats in the 107-member parliament) has nominated Vahagn Khachatrryan, current Minister of High Technology Industry, for the post of President. "His candidacy has been proposed by 65 MPs and it inspires some confidence that Khachatryan will not only be nominated but also elected ," the prime minister said, adding that until he is elected Khachatryan will continue to perform ...
02/03/2022Armenian parliament speaker accepts resignation of MP Arsen Torosyan
The parliamentary powers of Arsen Torosyan, a member of the ruling Civil Contract party and the head of the Health Committee, have been officially terminated. YEREVAN, August 27. /ARКА/. The parliamentary powers of Arsen Torosyan, a member of the ruling Civil Contract party and the head of the Health Committee,...
08/27/2025Parliamentary opposition condemns Armenia's ruling party for ‘indifference’ to the fate of prisoners held in Azerbaijan
Opposition factions in the Armenian Parliament lashed out at Prime Minister Pashinyan's ruling Civil Contract party today for skipping a vote on an opposition statement calling on the international community to pressure Azerbaijan, host of the UN COP 29 climate summit, to release Armenian prisoners. YEREVAN, 12 November. /ARKA/. Opposition factions ...
11/12/2024Armenia ready for closer relations with EU - ruling party
Armenia is ready for closer relations with the European Union, Secretary of the ruling Civil Contract party’s faction in the parliament Artur Hovhannisyan said on Friday, commenting on Parliament Speaker Alen Simonyan's statements that the country should strive to become an EU candidate. YEREVAN, March 1. /ARKA/. Armenia is ready for closer relations with the European ...
03/01/2024Civil Contract will ask court to change preventive measure against head of company and women employees of Economy Ministry
Members of the Armenian Parliament from the ruling Civil Contract party will officially ask a local court to change the preventive measure against the head of Synergy Company Ashot Hovhannisyan and several women with minor children, who were arrested as part of the criminal case initiated against officials ...
02/06/2024Armenia's parliament strips opposition lawmaker of parliamentary immunity allowing his prosecution.
Armenia's parliament, controlled by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s Civil Contract party, has stripped today opposition lawmaker Mher Sahakyan of his parliamentary immunity at the official request of the Prosecutor General's Office allowing his criminal prosecution. YEREVAN, April 12. /ARKA/. Armenia's parliament,...
04/12/2023Vahagn Hovakimyan elected new chairman of Armenian Central Election Commission
By a vote of 65 the Armenian parliament has elected today Vahagn Hovakimyan as new head of Armenia's Central Election Commission. YEREVAN, October 7. ... ... Vahagn Hovakimyan as new head of Armenia's Central Election Commission. Hovakimyan's candidacy was put forward by the ruling Civil Contract party of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. Since CEC members cannot have party affiliation or engage in political ...
10/07/2022Armenian parliament passes law restricting freedom of mass media
The Armenian parliament has passed today in the second and final reading a set of amendments to the law on media and a number of related laws,... ... opposition Hayastan (Armenia) alliance again voted against the amendments; however they were backed by 62 MPs from the ruling Civil Contract party Artur Hovhannisyan, an MP from the ruling Civil Contract party of Prime Minister Pashinyan, and one of the ...
12/10/2021Armenian parliament declines opposition’s draft statement on situation on border with Azerbaijan
Armenia’s Parliament, dominated by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s Civil Contract party, turned down today a statement drafted by the parliamentary opposition which demands, among other things, clear-cut and complete information about the situation on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border. YEREVAN, October 27. /ARKA/. Armenia’s ...
10/27/2021Armenia’s opposition leader Nikol Pashinyan is new prime minister
... Sargsyan. Pashinyan joined Armenia’s first president Levon Ter-Petrosyan in the 2008 presidential election, and had to go into hiding shortly after the unrest following... ... 2011, nearly two years after he was jailed. On May 6, 2012 he was first elected to parliament on Ter-Petrosyan’s National Assembly of Armenia’s ticket. On December... ... Pashinyan and other six politicians and activists started a new political group called Civil Contract. Before the 2017 general elections Civil Contract and two other parties...
05/08/2018Parliament chairman Alen Simonyan to fulfill duties of president until new president elected.
... Hakob Arshakyan will temporarily perform his duties of Simonyan. Earlier, the pro-government media reported that the ruling Civil Contract party headed by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, would nominate current Armenian Minister of High-Tech Industry, non-partisan Vahagn Khachaturyan, for the post of president, who is elected by parliament. -0-
02/01/2022Office of Armenia’s Prosecutor General to order inquiry into two scuffles provoked by MPs today in parliament
The Office of Armenia’s Prosecutor General said it will order an inquiry into two scuffles provoked by MPs today in the parliament. YEREVAN, August 25. /ARKA/. The Office of Armenia’s Prosecutor General said it will order an inquiry into two ... ... now an MP from the opposition Hayastan (Armenia) alliance, who hurled a bottle with water at MP Hayk Sargsyan from the ruling Civil Contract party of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. The scuffle quickly developed into a punch-up with MPs from both camps ...
08/25/2021Ruling majority in Armenian parliament votes down opposition’s proposal to set up standing committee on Artsakh
The Armenian parliament voted down on Friday an opposition proposal to create a new standing committee on Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) issues.... ... opposition proposal to create a new standing committee on Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) issues. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s Civil Contract party that controls 71 seats in 107-member legislature, proposed to create 12 standing committees. The proposal ...
08/06/2021Ruben Rubinyan elected vice speaker of Armenian parliament
By a vote of 70 Ruben Rubinyan, the head of the parliamentary committee on foreign affairs in Armenia’s previous parliament, was elected today as vice speaker of the National ... ... the National Assembly. Rubinyan was elected to parliament in the June 20 early elections on Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s Civil Contract party. The opposition factions Hayastan (Armenia) and Pativ Unem (I have Honor), nominated Ishkhan Saghatelyan ...
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