Acting Prime Minister Karen Karapetyan has filed an application on May 8 to President Armen Sarkissian on ceasing his duties as first deputy Prime Minister, and due to which also requested to consider his duties as acting PM to be stopped, the government said.
Armenian lawmakers elected opposition leader Nikol Pashinyan as Prime Minister of Armenia.
Nikol Pashinyan, candidate for the Prime Minister of Armenia, assures that if elected as PM the priority task of the new government will be forming a national solidarity atmosphere in Armenia, Artsakh and the Diaspora.
Armenia is interested in the preservation of the Russian military base in the country, President of Armenia Armen Sarkissian said in an interview with Echo of Moscow radio station.
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.
Nikol Pashinyan’s election as Prime Minister will be the beginning of new changes in Armenia, opposition Yelk faction MP Edmon Marukyan told reporters.
The military investigative committee has launched an investigation into the death of Private Levon Torosyan, a 19 year old serviceman of the Armenian Armed Forces who was found dead in a military position on May 6.
As the Armenian political crisis escalated during the past two weeks and the country was under global media spotlight, many foreign news agencies and journalists were dispatched to Armenia to cover the developments. Over 100 foreign journalists were accredited to cover the May 1 vote, which eventually failed to elect a Prime Minister. A second round of voting will be held May 8.
On May 4, at 01:10, the body of soldier Artur Gasparyan, born in 1998, was found in the military position of one of the military units located in Armenia’s north-eastern direction, with a fatal gunshot wound in his head.
MP Nikol Pashinyan, candidate for Prime Minister of Armenia nominated by three factions of the Parliament, posted a video on Facebook, stating that he had a meeting with head of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) faction Vahram Baghdasaryan who reaffirmed their faction’s stance on the election of the PM.
