REPUBLICAN PARTY OF ARMENIA TO DETERMINE NOMINEE OF NEW PRIME MINISTER TODAY EVENING

Arminfo
2007-04-02 18:26:00

The Council of the Republican Party of Armenia will hold a session
Monday evening to consider and advance the nominee of the future
Prime Minister.

Earlier RPA press-secretary Eduard Sharmazanov told an ArmInfo
correspondent that the RPA will most likely advance the nominee of
Serzh Sargsyan, Defense Minister and Chairman of the RPA Council,
who has been the acting RPA leader after Prime Minister Andranik
Margaryan’s death. According to a political agreement, the position of
the Armenian Prime Minister is reserved by the RPA after A.Margaryan’s
death. The RPA will submit the nominee for the approval of President
who is to appoint the new prime minister before April 6, as in
accordance with the Armenian Constitution, the new prime minister is
to be appointed within 10 days from the date the position becomes
vacant. It is not clear yet who will become the Defense Minister
after S.Sargsyan is appointed Prime Minister, however, according to
Armenian mass media, Seyran Ohanyan, the Nagorno-Karabakh Defense
Army Commander, is an applicant for the Armenian Defense Minister’s
position. To note, the RPA Board’s session will also cover the issues
of the party’s pre-electoral campaign.

56 year old Prime Minister Andranik Margaryan died of infarction on
March 25.