ArmInfo. The National Assembly of Armenia today - August 6, on the 5th day of the beginning of the first session of the parliament of the 8th convocation, hopes on the third attempt to elect the third deputy speaker - the candidate from the opposition factions Ishkhan Saghatelyan.
Recall that on August 4, the opposition factions "Hayastan" and "I Have Honor" nominated a single candidate for the post of the third deputy chairman of the National Assembly - Ishkhan Saghatelyan from the opposition "Hayastan" faction (representative of the Supreme Council of the ARF "Dashnaktsutyun", who earlier coordinated the protests of 'Salvation of the Motherland movement). On August 5, despite the fact that before the vote, Nazeli Baghdasaryan, secretary of the parliamentary ruling Civil Contract faction, assured that the minimum number of votes for electing an opposition deputy speaker would be ensured, the votes were not enough to elect Saghatelyan both during the first and the repeat voting.
After the repeated voting, the lawmaker of "Hayastan" faction Artsvik Minasyan warned that it is possible to vote an unlimited number of times by the NA rules. In response, NA Speaker Alen Simonyan nevertheless suggested leaving the question "for later", and in order to "overcome the parliamentary crisis" proceed to voting on the following issues on the agenda - electing the NA standing committees and their chairmen, as well as discussing the draft law on changes in the structure of the government proposed executive body and approval of the government program. Armen Rustamyan, a deputy from the Hayastan faction, in turn, retorted - the number of votes of the opposition factions is limited, and if the ruling party really wants to solve the parliamentary crisis, then it should try to provide the necessary number of votes with its resources.
Recall that following the results of the early parliamentary elections on June 20, 2021, the National Assembly of the 8th convocation consists of 107 deputies. The ruling Civil Contract party is represented by 71 deputies, the Hayastan opposition bloc (Armenia - ed.) received 29 mandates, and the I Have Honor bloc 7 mandates.