PARLIAMENT ACCEPTS DEPUTY SPEAKER’S RESIGNATION
ARMENPRESS
Feb 28, 2008
YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 28, ARMENPRESS: Armenian National Assembly
(parliament) has accepted today the resignation of a deputy speaker,
Vahan Hovhanesian from the Armenian Revolutionary Federation.
Announcing the news speaker Tigran Torosian said Hovhanesian filed his
resignation on February 25 and did not take it back within the next
three days and under the parliament’s regulation it is deemed accepted.
Earlier Vahan Hovhanesian cited his poor showing in the February 19
presidential election as the motive of his resignation. He received a
little over 6 percent of the vote. In a written statement he described
the February 19 vote deeply flawed, marred with widespread vote buying,
violence and ballot-stuffing.
Parliament speaker Torosian said today nomination of a new candidate
for the vacancy will take some time. In a reference to the ARF
announcements that it would like to end cooperation with the ruling
coalition, Torosian said if a party wants to quit the government it
must declare it in clear-cut words, and not in the form of suggestion.