In a closed voting the lawmakers from My Step faction removed Naira Zohrabyan from the post of chairperson of Human Rights Protection and Social Affairs Standing Committee.

Eighty-four deputies participated in the voting, two ballots have been recognized invalid.

Seventy-eight voted for and 4 against the decision which was submitted by the ruling faction.

In particular the decision was submitted by deputy Artur Hovhannisyan who said that Prosperous Armenia faction may nominate new candidacy within two weeks, if not the quota passes to the ruling majority.

Speaking at a briefing on Monday Naira Zohrabyan described the decision as a political revenge against her and Prosperous Armenia party.

She also said that they will apply to the Constitutional Court to dispute the constitutionality of the draft decision.

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