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TYCOON TO LEAD HIS PARTY'S FACTION IN PARLIAMENT
By Ruzanna Stepanian
Radio Liberty, Czech Rep.
June 5 2007
Armenia's wealthy businessman Gagik Tsarukian will head his Prosperous
Armenia party's (BHK) 19-member parliamentary faction, the party's
spokesman Baghdasar Mherian officially confirmed to RFE/RL on Monday.
Aram Safarian is likely to become the secretary of the faction to be
set up by the pro-presidential party that a came a distant second
in the May 12 parliamentary elections with less than 15 percent of
the vote, yielding more than twice as much to Prime Minister Serzh
Sarkisian's Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) that won an outright
majority in the new legislature.
According to the information reported by the BHK spokesperson, some
of the candidates that occupied high spots on the party's slate
rejected parliamentary mandates. Among them are Yerevan State Arts
Academy Rector Aram Isabekian, director general of the Erebuni and
Nairi medical centers Harutiun Kushkian, Dean of the Yerevan State
University's Department of Philology Artsrun Avakian, and some others.
Mherian declined to share any information on the ongoing talks over
the new government, in which the BHK is expected to be represented
by several members.
"We are not authorized to speak about it as long as the negotiations
are still in progress," he said.
By Ruzanna Stepanian
Radio Liberty, Czech Rep.
June 5 2007
Armenia's wealthy businessman Gagik Tsarukian will head his Prosperous
Armenia party's (BHK) 19-member parliamentary faction, the party's
spokesman Baghdasar Mherian officially confirmed to RFE/RL on Monday.
Aram Safarian is likely to become the secretary of the faction to be
set up by the pro-presidential party that a came a distant second
in the May 12 parliamentary elections with less than 15 percent of
the vote, yielding more than twice as much to Prime Minister Serzh
Sarkisian's Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) that won an outright
majority in the new legislature.
According to the information reported by the BHK spokesperson, some
of the candidates that occupied high spots on the party's slate
rejected parliamentary mandates. Among them are Yerevan State Arts
Academy Rector Aram Isabekian, director general of the Erebuni and
Nairi medical centers Harutiun Kushkian, Dean of the Yerevan State
University's Department of Philology Artsrun Avakian, and some others.
Mherian declined to share any information on the ongoing talks over
the new government, in which the BHK is expected to be represented
by several members.
"We are not authorized to speak about it as long as the negotiations
are still in progress," he said.