IF ANC RENOUNCES YEREVAN ELDERS MANDATES, COUNCIL OF ELDERS TO WORK WITH INCOMPLETE STAFF IN COMING 4 YEARS

Noyan Tapan
June 3, 2009

YEREVAN, JUNE 3, NOYAN TAPAN. If the Armenian National Congress (ANC)
does not accept the preliminary results of the May 31 Yerevan Council
of Elders elections and renounces its mandates, the Council of Elders
will work with an incomplete staff in the coming 4 years.

As David Haroutiunian, a RPA member, the Chairman of the RA NA
Standing Committee on State and Legal Issues, explained in response
to journalists’ questions, if all candidates of elders included in
ANC’s list individually renounce their mandates, their mandates will
be vacant until the end of the powers of this council of elders.

It should be mentioned that according to the preliminary results of
elections, according to unofficial calculations, the Republican Party
of Armenia will have 35 mandates, Bargavach Hayastan 17 mandates,
ANC 13 mandates. If ANC renounces its mandates, the first Yerevan
Council of Elders will consist of 52 members instead of the planned 65.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress