“Image” of National Assembly in numbers
Members of the Republican faction Gagik Melikyan and Hrant Grigoryan voted the most (238 times respectively) during the fourth convention of the National Assembly, followed NA Chairman Hovik Abrahamyan in third place with 237 points.
The list continues with Galust Sahakyan, Gagik Minasyan, Karine Atchemyan and Artak Zakaryan with one point each.
Tomorrow the Partnership for an Open Society initiative will present a computer program that prepares statistics on the individual activities of parliamentary factions and MPs and will be exploited through the website at http://parliamentmonitoring.am.
The website will feature information about the activities of MPs.
According to existing information, Ruben Hayrapetyan (Republican Party of Armenia) tops the list of absent MPs with 237 absences, followed by Harutyun Pambukyan (Republican Party of Armenia) and Alvard Petrosyan (ARF) with almost the same number of absences. Among other absent MPs are Gagik Tsarukyan (230), Levon Sargsyan (223), Mikayel Vardanyan (216) and Samvel Alexanyan (205).
As for speeches, "Heritage" MP Larisa Alaverdyan is in first place (71 speeches), followed by ARF MP Artsvik Minasyan (53) and head of "Heritage" faction Styopa Safaryan (38).
According to the RA Constitution, the government, National Assembly MPs and factions have the right to present legislative initiatives in the National Assembly. The government has exercised this right the most (nearly 78 percent), while MPs have presented the remaining 22 percent of initiatives.
"Heritage" MP tops the list of MPs presenting legislative initiatives, followed by the Republican Party of Armenia and the Armenian Revolutionary Federation with 146 and 110 initiatives respectively.
The MPs of Prosperous Armenia and Country of Law factions have each presented legislative initiatives 36 times.
