Ruling party committed to supporting May 8 election, HHK faction says

The Republican Party of Armenia is committed to its earlier statement and will support with sufficient voted the election of a Prime Minister on May 8, Republican Party (HHK) faction leader Vahram Baghdasaryan told reporters in parliamentary press briefings.

“We haven’t had discussions on other developments. We have our decision until May 8 – to support the election of Prime Minister, and after this we will discuss the remaining issues,” he said.

Baghdasaryan clarified that the HHK continues having the same concerns which their lawmakers had voiced during parliamentary debates on May 1.

“Our main concerns relate to the change of foreign policy vector. These concerns remain, and Nikol Pashinyan is aware about it. However, we, seeing the reality that our citizens who went out to rallies, the initiators of these rallies are adamant in their stances, we made a decision that we will support the candidate of the parliament’s 1/3 in the second round. For settling the situation in the country we made a political decision to support in order for a Prime Minister to be elected on May 8 because the most important thing for us is the establishment of stability in our country,” he said.