KHACHIK MANUKYAN DOES NOT WANT DEPUTY MANDATE
Support A1+!Khachik Manukyan who was elected to the National Assembly from Precinct 15, has resigned from his deputy mandate. He has submitted an application to the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) to hold a new election at the electoral district. The CEC met Khachik Manukyan’s application with eight votes for and one vote against. Khachik Manukyan is no longer a parliament member.
According to our data, Khachik Manukyan resigned from the mandate as he had been promised a minister’s portfolio.
Today the CEC also registered the MPs elected on the party tickets. Felix Khachatryan, the representative of the Justice bloc to the CEC, was against this decision. He proposed delaying the discussion unless the Constitutional Court finished hearing of the oppositionalists’ appeal. Felix Khachatryan’s proposal was turned down, and the commission members registered deputies elected under the proportional system.
The newly-elected deputies get their mandates at 6:30, June 6. The NA convenes its first session at 10:00, June 7.
It is noteworthy that over majoritarian 50 deputies resigned from mandates among them Shamiram Aghabekyan, a Prosperous Armenian member, Artsrun Avagyan, the Dean of the YSU Philological faculty, ARFD ministers David Lokyan, Aghvan Vardanyan, Norayr Davidyan, members, Republican ministers Hovik Abrahamyan, Armen Movsisyan, Manuk Topuzyan, Andranik Manukyan, etc.
