Armenian Parliament Speaker Simonyan renounced his parliamentary mandate
On July 2, Speaker of the current Armenian parliament Alen Simonyan announced that he intends to give up his parliamentary mandate, as he needs a short rest.
"I will not take a mandate and will not come to parliament. First of all, I want to have a little rest," he said during his briefing, which was broadcast on the YouTube channel of the Armenian Express agency.
Simonyan clarified that he had already discussed such a decision with the current Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, as well as with the current board of the Civil Contract party, which, in turn, has not yet elected him as a candidate for the speaker of the new convocation.
The decision, as the speaker of the Armenian parliament explained, does not mean that he will leave politics altogether. He intends to stay close to his comrades in the political association and continue to be useful to the republic. Simonyan did not specify what exactly prompted him to give up his mandate.
On June 30, the head of the Armenian Strong Armenia bloc, Samvel Karapetyan, announced the opposition's plans to overthrow Pashinyan. According to him, this will happen if the legal way of challenging the results of the parliamentary elections in the republic turns out to be unsuccessful.
A few days earlier, on June 22, the Constitutional Court of Armenia accepted the cases of Karapetyan's party, as well as the Wings of Unity, Democracy, Law, Discipline, Prosperous Armenia, the Union of Defenders of Democracy for the Republic, Armenia and the New Force. Representatives of the opposition pointed out violations during the voting in the country.
According to the election results, only three political parties entered the Armenian parliament following the results of the last elections: the Civil Contract party — 49.7456% (726,819 votes); the Strong Armenia bloc — 23.271% (340,060 votes); the Armenia bloc — 9.923% (144,983 votes).
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