TIGRAN TOROSIAN ELECTED NA SPEAKER

Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Jun 1 2006

YEREVAN, JUNE 1, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. By the results of
the June 1 secret ballot, Vice-Chairman of the Republican Party of
Armenia Tigran Torosian who held the post of RA NA Vice-Speaker was
elected RA NA Speaker.

According to the protocol of the ad hoc calculating commission,
97 of 131 RA MPs took part in the voting. 94 MPs voted for Tigran
Torosian and 1 against. Two ballot-papers were recognized invalid. In
accordance with the decisions made earlier, the members of the
Ardarutiun (Justice) and National Unity factions did not take part in
the voting. Tigran Torosian was born on April 14 1956 in Yerevan. In
1978 he graduated from Yerevan Polytechnical Institute. He is an
engineer of electronic technics a candidate of technical sciences. He
is the author of more than 10 inventions and more than 30 scientific
works. In 1978-95 he worked at Yerevan Scientific-Research Institute
of Mathematic Machines.

In 1996-98 he was RA CEC member, in 1997-98 the editor-in-chief of
the Hanrapetakan newspaper. He has been a deputy of the parliament
of the previous two convocations. He has been NA Vice-Speaker of the
parliament of second convocation from 1999 November 2 and of third
convocation from 2003 June 12.

T.Torosian is also the head of the PACE Armenian delegation. Besides,
he has headed the ad hoc commissions on constitutional amendments
and on Armenia’s integration to European structures. He is married,
has two children. On June 2, RA NA will pass to the election of
chairmen of NA Standing Committee on Defence, National Security and
Internal Affairs, as well as Standing Committee on Social, Healthcare
and Nature Protection Issues. It is expected that the candidature
of non-partisan Aramayis Grigorian not included in any faction or
group will be nominated by the ARF Dashnaktsutiun faction for the
first post and the candidature of ULP faction member, Vice-Chairman
of the same committee Mnatsakan Petrosian for the second post.