YEREVAN. – Armenian National Assembly (NA) Speaker Hovik Abrahamyan will convene a consultation meeting, with the heads of the NA factions, on Tuesday at the parliament, Zhamanak daily reports.  

“During which the new procedure for the formation of the national delegations to the parliamentary assemblies will be discussed.

“According to some information, this refers to the confirmation—by way of a formula—of the makeup of the delegations to international parliamentary assemblies.   

“In this way, NA Speaker Hovik Abrahamyan perhaps will attempt to achieve the removal of [opposition Heritage Party NA Faction Secretary] Zaruhi Postanjyan [who is also a member of the NA delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE)] from the delegation to PACE, as it was announced earlier,” Zhamanak writes.

To note, during the question and answer session at the PACE plenary session in Strasbourg, France, on October 2, Zaruhi Postanjyan had asked Armenia’s President Serzh Sargsyan the following question:

“You have appeared here [in the PACE session] not by the will of the people, but [rather] as a consequence of organized crime, the theft of the Armenian people’s vote. Therefore you cannot de jure represent the will and right of the Armenian people. [So,] I’ll give you another question. Have you been to a casino in Europe and lost 70 million euros there? And who paid that amount in your stead?”     

Posing such question had caused great controversy in Armenia.