ACCORDING TO RELIABLE INFORMATION, ROBERT KOCHARIAN TO OFFER NA VICE-SPEAKER ISHKHAN ZAKARIAN’S CANDIDATURE FOR CONTROL CHAMBER CHAIRMAN’S POST

Noyan Tapan
Oct 31, 2007

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 31, NOYAN TAPAN. According to reliable information,
RA President Robert Kocharian is going to offer the candidature of
Ishkhan Zakarian, the NA Vice-Speaker, a member of Bargavach Hayastan
party’s Board, to the post of Chairman of independent Control Chamber,
which will replace RA National Assembly’s Control Chamber soon. Though
the deadline of appointing the Control Chamber Chairman is November 7,
nevertheless, in all probability, that issue will be discussed at the
NA special sitting to be held on November 2. It should be mentioned
that the appointment will be done by a secret ballot.

If I. Zakarian is appointed the Chairman of the Control Chamber,
then, according an intra-coalition agreement, the right to offer a
candidate to the NA Vice-Speaker’s vacant post will be reserved for
the Bargavach Hayastan Party. According to rumors being spread in
the National Assembly, the most probable candidate is Avet Adonts,
the current Chairman of the National Assembly Standing Committee for
European Integration.

It should be also mentioned that in case of holding the post of the
Control Chamber Chairman, I. Zakarian’s deputy authorities will
be stopped ahead of schedule. As he was elected a deputy by the
proportional system, the vacant deputy mandate will be handed over
to the next candidate registered on BH’s electoral roll.