YEREVAN. – Armenian National Assembly (NA) Speaker Hovik Abrahamyan on Tuesday forwarded to the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) the record on termination of opposition Heritage Party Chairman, NA MP Raffi Hovannisian’s parliamentary mandate. Abrahamyan’s Press Secretary Gohar Poghosyan confirmed this information to Armenian News-NEWS.am.    

To note, Hovannisian had submitted a formal petition to give up his parliamentary mandate and Hovik Abrahamyan had announced it during the NA session. And, in line with NA procedures, if Hovannisian did not withdraw his petition within fifteen days after its publicizing in the NA session, his petition was to be automatically approved and his parliamentary mandate was to be removed.

And those fifteen days have expired.

Raffi Hovannisian was elected MP from Heritage’s proportional election list which he headed. 

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