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    ARMENIAN PARLIAMENT SPEAKER VIEWS HIS REPLACEMENT AS PREMEDITATED MOVE

    ARKA
    Sep 17, 2008

    YEREVAN, September 17. /ARKA/. Tigran Torosyan, who resigned as
    National Assembly Speaker and quitted his membership in Republican
    Party of Armenia on Tuesday, says his step was motivated by
    confrontation within the party.

    He said he sees no way out of the situation. "I have repeatedly tried
    to overcome this confrontation, but failed", Torosyan said at a news
    conference on Tuesday.

    He told journalists that he was ousted from this position in a
    clear breach of competition and moral principles. He said it was a
    well-though-out move.

    "It is absolutely obvious to me that it was a premeditated action that
    pursued one mere purpose. Behind-the-scenes intrigues and unprecedented
    four-month propaganda campaign prepared this move", Torosyan said.

    Torosyan said that he will quit the party's faction, but retain his
    membership in National Assembly.

    He said that his resignation will take force only in five days after
    announcement at the next four-day parliamentary session.

    On September 6, Republican Party of Armenia put up the candidacy of
    former head of presidential staff Hovik Abrahamyan, who took a seat
    in National Assembly recently by winning by-election, to the post of
    parliament speaker, the press office of the party reports.

    The party board considered the reasonability of Parliament Speaker
    Tigran Torosyan's furt her staying in office and decided to replace
    him by the new candidate.

    Rumors about the resignation were going around in recent months,
    but Torosyan has repeatedly denied them.

    In the beginning of this summer, Hovik Abrahamyan filled the seat of
    his brother Henrik Abrahamyan, who quitted his membership in National
    Assembly for running Artashat Wine Company.

    Earlier, Armenian Republican Party's fellow coalition members -
    Prosperous Armenia, Armenian Revolutionary Federation Dashnaktsutyun
    and Orinats Yerkir - said that the speaker replacement is strictly
    internal matter of Republican Party.
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