Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) President Pedro Agramunt has been removed from the European People’s Party (EPP) group.
National Assembly (NA) of Armenia vice president and head of the NA Delegation to PACE, Arpine Hovhannisyan, who was elected vice-president of this organization during its summer session that kicked off Monday and is also the EPP spokesperson at PACE, told the aforesaid to Armenian News-NEWS.am.
She said the respective decision was made at Wednesday’s meeting of the EPP deputies. In Hovhannisyan’s words, the decision to remove Agramunt from the group was adopted by vote of 30 for, 0 against, and 3 abstentions. She noted that the whole Azerbaijani lobby, however, was fighting for Agramunt and defending him. Furthermore, as per Hovhannisyan, those who were against, did not vote.
As reported earlier, the PACE deputies on Tuesday adopted a resolution that enables to start a process of no-confidence toward PACE leaders, including President Agramunt. And Arpine Hovhannisyan told Armenian News-NEWS.am that after the adoption of this resolution, signatures will need to be collected in order to express no-confidence to Pedro Agramunt.