ArmInfo.At the National Assembly of Armenia, the work of the meeting of the first session, which began on August 2, continues. Today, on the 4th day of work, the National Assembly will elect the third Deputy Speaker, but this time from the opposition.
On August 2, the National Assembly elected former Deputy Speaker of the parliament of the 7th convocation Alen Simonyan as the Speaker of the RA NA.
On August 3 and August 4, parliamentarians secretly voted in secret the candidates from the ruling Civil Contract faction - Ruben Rubinyan (Chairman of the NA Standing Committee on Foreign Relations of the previous parliament) and Hakob Arshakyan (former Minister of High Technologies). Yesterday, the opposition "Hayastan" and "I Have Honor" factions 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 ARF "Dashnaktsutyun" Supreme Council, previously coordinating the protest actions of the "Movement for the Salvation of the Fatherland").
After the election of the Deputy Speakers, the parliament will elect the chairpersons of the standing committees. The factions also presented initiatives on the creation of the NA standing committees.