ArmInfo.The ruling "Civil Contract" faction and the opposition "Hayastan" and "I Have the Honor" have nominated their candidates for the post of Deputy Speakers of the parliament of the 8th convocation. Today, on August 3, the work of the first session convened in the National Assembly of Armenia on August 2 continues.
According to the agenda, the parliament must elect three Deputy Speakers of the National Assembly by secret ballot. Yesterday, Alen Simonyan, former Deputy Speaker of the 7th convocation parliament, was elected as the NA Speaker. Then the National Assembly will elect the chairmen of the standing committees.
Ruben Rubinyan(Chairman of the NA Standing Committee on Foreign Relations of the 7th Convocation) and Hakob Arshakyan (former Minister of High Technologies) are candidates for the post of Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of Armenia from the "Civil Contract" party, headed by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Representative of the ARF Dashnaktsutyun Supreme Council, formerly coordinating the protest actions of the Movement for the Salvation of the Fatherland, MP from "Armenia" ("Hayastan") bloc, Ishkhan Saghatelyan, became the single candidate from the "Hayastan" and "I Have Honor" opposition blocs for the post of the third Deputy Speaker of the RA National Assembly.
To recall, following the results of the early parliamentary elections on June 20, 2021, the National Assembly of the 8th convocation consists of 107 MPs. The ruling Civil Contract party is represented by 71 MPs, the "Hayastan" opposition bloc ("Armenia") received 29 mandates, and the "I Have Honor" bloc -7 mandates.