ArmInfo. On August 10 Ara Babloyan, the Chairman of the National Assembly of Armenia, signed a protocol on the termination of the authority of the National Assembly deputy Vardan Bostanjyan, the Press Service of the Armenian Parliament reports.
"Basing on the MP's application on resignation and being guided by the requirement of clause 6, part 1 of Article 154 of the Constitutional Law of the Republic of Armenia on "NA Rules of Procedure", the authorities of Vardan Bostanjyan, who was elected through the list of the "Tsarukyan" bloc of parties, are terminated.
On July 31 MP from the Tsarukyan faction, head of the Commission on Culture, Education, Youth and Sports Vardan Bostanjyan submitted an application to the Speaker of the parliament Ara Babloyan to lay down his mandate. The official reason for Bostanjyan's decision is not known. However, the political circles do not exclude that the reason was Bostanjyan's statements about the arrest of the second president Robert Kocharyan, which differed from the official position of the Tsarukyan bloc. Bostanjyan, in particular, considered the arrest of Kocharyan a severe preventive measure, and said that the second president was subjected if not to political persecution, then, at least, to the persecution. Meanwhile, the MPs from the Tsarukyan bloc, whose main force is the Prosperous Armenia party established by Kocharyan, said that the process is considered exclusively in the legal framework, and they do not intend to make political statements in connection with the situation.