ArmInfo. In the margins of the power, various versions of the personnel reshuffle are actively discussed, and already, according to ArmInfo sources in the ruling circles, certain positions have already been achieved.
Thus, according to sources, instead of Arpine Hovhannisyan, the new Minister of Justice will be Hrayr Ghukasyan, Adviser to the President of the Republic of Armenia on Legal Issues. Arpine Hovhannisyan, most likely, will take the post of vice speaker of the parliament instead of Hermine Naghdalyan, who will head the commission on economic issues in the new National Assembly. The head of the commission on state and legal issues instead of Hovhannes Sahakyan is likely to be ex-Prosecutor General Gevorg Kostanyan, and Hovhannes Sahakyan is predicted the post of head of the parliament's apparatus.
As for the most intriguing position, for the speaker of the National Assembly, at present two main candidates are being considered: Deputy Speaker Eduard Sharmazanov and brother of Russian businessman Samvel Karapetyan Karen Karapetyan. After two weeks of absence from the republic, he returned to Yerevan and became actively lobbying his candidacy in this post. Armen Ashotyan, who is also predicting the position of the head of the faction of the Republican Party and even the chairman of the commission on foreign affairs, does not leave his hopes for the post of parliament speaker and even the chairman of the commission on foreign issues. However, Samvel Farmanyan, who is in the new parliament, will head the Armenian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe is also a likely candidate for the post of head of the commission on state and legal issues.
The position of the second vice-speaker may be entrusted to the ARF "Dashnaktsutyun" party, in this case, she will most likely get the representative of the Supreme Body of ARFD Aghvan Vardanyan. The third vice-speaker from the opposition will be the representative of Tsarukyan bloc Ishkhan Zakaryan.
Some changes will also occur in the diplomatic corps. Thus, former RPA deputy Levon Martirosyan will be appointed Armenian Ambassador in Canada. The ex-deputy, former Foreign Minister Alik Arzumyanan will also hold the post of ambassador, the country-resident has not yet been determined. The Armeian Ambassador to Georgia instead of Yuri Vardanyan will be political scientist Sergey Minasyan.