The National Assembly of the Seventh Convocation will conduct its first session next Monday, January 14.
Twenty newly elected lawmakers, including eighteen members of
Nikol Pashinyan’s My Step bloc, have laid down their mandates, the
chairman of the Central Electoral Commission (CEC), Tigran Mukuchyan,
said at a special meeting on Friday.
“Acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Acting Deputy Prime
Minister Tigran Avinyan, Chief of the Prime Minister’s Staff Eduard
Aghajanyan, Acting Minister of Territorial Administration and
Development Suren Papikyan, Head of the State Oversight Service David
Sanasaryan, Acting Minister of Transport, Communication and Information
Technologies Hakob Arshakyan, Acting Minister of Emergency Situations
Felix Tsolakyan, Acting Minister of Education and Science Arayik
Harutyunyan, Acting Minister of Nature Protection Erik Grigoryan, Acting
Minister of Health Arsen Torosyan, Acting Minister of Labor and Social
Affairs Zaruhi Batoyan, the deputy regional governor of Syunik, Narek
Babayan, the regional governor of Vayots Dzor, Trdat Sargsyan, the
regional governor of Ararat, Garik Sargsyan, the regional governor of
Gegharkunik, Gnel Sanosyan, the regional governor of Aragatsotn, David
Gevorgyan, the regional governor of Kotayk, Romanos Petrosyan and the
regional governor of Lori, Andrey Ghukasyan, have submitted notices on
returning their mandates,” he told the CEC members.
Also, two elected members of the Bright Armenia party, Christ
Marukyan and Armen Baghdasaryan, will not be represented in the new
parliament, Mukuchyan added.
Eleven political forces, including nine parties and two blocs,
were running for parliament in the December 9 snap elections. My Step
celebrated a landslide victory with 70.42% of the vote. Bright Armenia
and the Prosperous Armenia party (PAP) received respectively 8.26% and
6.37%.
The former ruling Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) and its one
time ally in the coalition government, the Armenian Revolutionary
Federation-Dashnaksutyun (ARF-D), failed to cross the 5% threshold
(prescribed by the Electoral Code of Armenia) to win seats in the
legislative.