YEREVAN. – During Wednesday’s Armenian National Assembly (NA) special session, NA Speaker Hovik Abrahamyan will formally present to the parliament ruling Republican Party (RPA) MP Ruben Hayrapetyan’s letter of resignation, which he had officially submitted to NA on July 4, Zhamanak daily reports.  

“And if he [Hayrapetyan] does not withdraw his resignation by September 21, it will be considered to be accepted. But there are rumors being circulated that Hayrapetyan could regret and withdraw his letter.

[NA’s] RPA Faction leader Galust Sahakyan, however, told Zhamanak that had he [Hayrapetyan] wished to withdraw his letter [of resignation], he would have withdrawn it over the course of these weeks. ‘He wouldn’t have left it for the last days,’ [he said,]” Zhamanak writes.       

As Armenian News-NEWS.am informed earlier, an incident had occurred at capital city Yerevan’s Harsnaqar Restaurant on June 17, where several military doctors including Edgar Mikoyan, Arkadi Aghajanyan, Garik Soghomonyan, Artak Bayadyan and Vahe Avetyan were brutally beaten by security personnel. And Vahe Avetyan died in hospital on June 29. A criminal lawsuit is filed and the Police have detained several people.

The Restaurant’s owner is senior ruling party MP, Football Federation of Armenia President, and businessman Ruben Hayrapetyan, who on July 4 formally submitted his resignation from his parliamentary seat in connection with this incident.