ARF TO GET NEW POSITIONS IN THE GOVERNMENT
Armenpress
May 19 2006
YEREVAN, MAY 19, ARMENPRESS: A TV boss closely affiliated with
the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) has agreed to quit his
job which he said he loved very much in return for a seat in the
parliament, it emerged today.
Gegham Manukian, chief of Yerkir Media TV, will replace Levon
Mkrtchian, a former head of the ARF parliament faction, who was
appointed by president Kocharian new education minister after Sergo
Yeritsian from the embattled Orinats Yerkir of parliament speaker
Arthur Baghdasarian was forced to resign.
Gegham Manukian was on the ARF slate when it contested the 2003
parliamentary elections.
Deputy parliament chairman Vahan Hovhanesian from the ARF, who
heralded the news today, agreed that Mkrtchian’s appointment has
boosted ARF’s presence in the government but added that it has also
increased its share of responsibility. Hovhanesian said his party
expected to take up some other top government positions, vacated by
Orinats Yerkir’s members.