ArmInfo. Candidate for the presidency of Armenia from the ruling party Vahagn Khachaturyan left the "Armenian National Congress" party of first president Levon Ter-Petrosyan.
"On February 3, the 'Armenian National Congress' received Khachaturyan's application with a request to terminate his membership in the party. The ANC granted the applicant's request," the party said in a statement.
On January 31, in an interview with journalists, Minister of High-Tech Industry Vahagn Khachaturyan, commenting on the legislative requirement for a presidential candidate, said that back in 2017 he suspended his party activities in the Armenian National Congress. "I consider myself non-partisan. However, in the formal sense, there is a circumstance of the presence or absence of a statement," Khachaturian said.