NEW SPEAKER ELECTION DELAYED TO JUNE 1
PanARMENIAN.Net
31.05.2006 15:11 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The election of the new Speaker of the Armenian
National Assembly will be held on Thursday Vice-speaker Tigran
Torosian told reporters today. Besides, the deputies will elect
the chairmen of permanent parliamentary commission on defense, home
affairs and national security and of the commission on social issues,
health and ecology. “The change of the terms is conditioned by the
discussion of some legislative initiatives,” he said. To remind,
May 11 Orinats Yerkir party announced the decision to secede from the
ruling coalition over discrepancies on home and foreign policy. May
29 Artur Baghdassaryan formally left the post of the parliament
Speaker. Head of the permanent parliamentary commission on defense,
home affairs and national security Mher Shahgeldian and chairman of
the commission on social issues, health and ecology Gagik Mkheyan
also handed in resignation.