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Hovik Abrahamyan was elected Speaker of the Fifth Convocation National Assembly. After he was elected he approached the chair of the speaker and said: “Truth gets ill but it doesn’t die”.
MPs from opposition Heritage Party and ANC aren’t present at the first session of the Fifth Convocation National Assembly. ARF-D boycotted the election of the NA speaker.
102 MPs voted for the only candidate nominated to the speaker’s post, 4 were against and 4 more ballots were considered void.
As it was expected RPA faction MP Galust Sahakyan proposed the candidatures of Edward Sharmazanov and Hermine Naghdalyan to the posts of the two NA deputy speakers. They will probably be elected soon.