ACCORDING TO VAHAN HOVHANNISIAN, ARF DOES NOT PRETEND ON PARLIAMENTARY HEADING POSTS TO REMAIN VACANT
Noyan Tapan
May 22 2006
YEREVAN, MAY 22, NOYAN TAPAN. It will be decided at the coming sitting
of the ARF Dashnaktsutiun Supreme Body of Armenia who will undertake
the deputy’s mandate remained vacant by the proportional electoral
order. Armen Rustamian, the ARF Supreme Body representative, the
Chairman of the NA Standing Committee on Foreign Relations informed
the Noyan Tapan correspondent about it. To recap, the above-mentioned
mandate has been vacant since NA “ARF” faction head Levon Mkrtchian’s
having been appointed the Minister of Education and Science by the
RA President’s May 17 decree. NA Deputy Speaker, ARF Bureau member
Vahan Hovhannisian, responding journalists’ questions, informed that
the deputy’s vacant place, in most probability, will be occupied by
Gegham Manukian, the head of the information and political programs
of the “Yerkir-Media” TV company, who is the regular next candidate
of the proportional list of the party. According to V.Hovhannisian,
the issue of election of the new head of the parliamentary faction
is also in process at present. Present Secretary of the faction Hrayr
Karapetian is one of possible candidates. Responding the Noyan Tapan
correspondent’s question, Vahan Hovhannisian said that the ARF does
not pretend at present on posts of the chairmen of the parliamentary
standing committees to remain vacant soon, “though it has a candidate
for any post.” As for undertaking new posts as a result of the last
re-arrangements in the executive power, then the ARF “is ready for
that responsibility, both in the sense of staff and experience, and
resoluteness.” According to Vahan Hovhannisian, it is most probable
that the ARF will undertake new posts in a number of circles of the
executive power, but it is not spoken about new ministerial portfolios.