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    Hrant Bagratyan: Very few people in the Armenian Parliament are free

    by Ashot Safaryan

    ARMINFO
    Wednesday, April 30, 14:09

    There are very few free people in the Armenian Parliament, Hrant
    Bargaryan, former prime minister of Armenia, a member of Armenian
    National Congress Party Faction in the Parliament, said in a Facebook
    post.

    "On 29 April, the President of the National Assembly was elected. I'd
    like to thank the parliamentarians who voted for my candidature.
    Congratulations to Galust Sahakyan on election as NA President. I'm
    happy to have managed to introduce a program of NA reforms (for the
    first time in the history of that structure)," Bagratyan writes.

    According to him, the opposition must be freer than the authorities.
    Only free people can win the incumbent authorities, but there are very
    few such people in the parliament today, Bagratyan writes.

    To recall, on 29 April, the head of the RPA parliamentary faction,
    Galust Sahakyan, was elected a new speaker of the parliament by 101
    votes "for" through a secret ballot procedure. A total of 106 members
    of the parliament took part in the voting, three of which voted for
    the self- nominated opposition candidate, Hrant Bagratyan and two
    ballot were recognized invalid. The opposition Armenian National
    Congress, Heritage Party and ARFD did not take part in the voting. The
    majority of deputies from Orinats Yerkir party and Prosperous Armenia
    Party supported Galust Sahakyan's candidacy.

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