Hovik Aghazaryan leaves dominant faction of Armenia`s NA

ArmInfo. Member of the  National Assembly of Armenia Hovik Agazaryan, who was expelled from  the ruling Civil Contract party the day before, announced his  intention to leave both the NA Counting Commission and the ruling  faction. He announced this on December 4 from the rostrum of the  parliament.

According to him, not all the statements and assessments that have  been made recently in his address will receive an appropriate  response, but the responses that will be made will be answered in  kind.

In turn, Chairman of the National Assembly Alen Simonyan addressed  the NA Secretariat with the instruction to ensure Agazaryan's  exclusion from the ruling faction.

The day before, the party announced on its Facebook page that by the  decision of the board of the political force, Hovik Agazaryan was  expelled from the party for leaking confidential information of state  and party importance, as well as for gross violations of ethical  standards.

Earlier, RA Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan expressed hope in an  interview with Public Television that the MP would listen to his call  to resign from his parliamentary mandate, which, however, did not  happen on the part of Agazaryan. Pashinyan recalled that the MP was  involved in a scandal related to the former head of the Investigative  Committee Argishti Kyaramyan.