ArmInfo. The candidate of the ruling Civil Contract faction, former minister of high-tech industry Hakob Arshakyan was elected deputy speaker of the parliament. Arshakyan became the second deputy speaker from the ruling party, the day before Ruben Rubinyan was elected from the Civil Contract.
To recall, Nikol Pashinyan's ally Hakob Arshakyan was appointed RA Minister of Transport, Communications and Information Technologies on October 5, 2018 by the decree of Armenian President Armen Sarkissian. After structural changes, the department was renamed the Ministry of High-Tech Industry, and Arashkyan continued to lead it.
On March 18, 2021, Minister Arshakyan, in one of the capital's cafes, attacked journalist Paylak Fahradyan, who asked why he spends his working hours in a cafe. After the incident, Hakob Arshakyan stated that he was ready to bear responsibility and apologized to the journalist. In addition, at the end of February, photographs of the Armenian pavilion appeared in the media and social networks, where, instead of defense products, only a few booklets could be seen. Arshakyan's department was responsible for the event. It turned out that due to logistical problems, the products of the Armenian military- industrial complex could not be delivered to the UAE on time. But then, according to Minister Arshakyan, the pavilion was still full.
At the same time, an official investigation was ordered, as a result of which several employees of the ministry got off with a reprimand. On March 31, Hakob Arshakyan announced his resignation on his Facebook.