15:18, 6 April 2023

YEREVAN, APRIL 6, ARMENPRESS. The ruling Civil Contract party doesn’t consider sacking Speaker of Parliament Alen Simonyan, the Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Relations MP Sargis Khandanyan (Civil Contract) said Thursday.

“No such issue was discussed neither within the Civil Contract party nor the faction. The National Assembly elected a Speaker in August of 2021 and he continues fulfilling his duties, and there’s no other discussion in our faction. No such issue exists in our agenda and I don’t think there’s a need for that,” Khandanyan said.

Speaker Alen Simonyan is accused of spitting at an opposition heckler in downtown Yerevan for calling him a “traitor”.

Former President Levon Ter-Petrosyan described Simonyan’s alleged actions as “unforgivable” and demanded his ouster.