Regnum, Russia
May 12 2006
Orinats Yerkir Party started breakdown of Armenian ruling coalition
Orinats Yerkir (OYe) Party leaves the Armenian ruling coalition
(Republican Party, OYe, ARFD); political council of the party decided
later on May 11 at its session. A REGNUM correspondent was informed
at OYe headquarters that OYe Head, Parliament Speaker Artur
Bagdassaryan was going to speak to the press on May 12.
It should be reminded that 9 MPs, including leading entrepreneurs
Arkady Ambartsumyan, Eduard Gabrielyan, Sayad Zaharyan, Tigran
Eganyan, Samwel Shakhgaldyan, as well as businessmen Grigor
Margaryan, Melik Manukyan, and Arshak Mkhitaryan, left the coalition
OYe party and its parliamentary fraction recently.
The ruling coalition was established after on May 25, 2003,
parliamentary elections on the basis of an agreement between Armenian
President Robert Kocharyan and representatives of Republican Party,
OYe Party, and Dashnaktsutiun Armenian Revolutionary Federation
(ARFD). The OYe Party has three representatives at the Armenian
government.