YEREVAN. – Armenian National Assembly resumed the vote after 20-minute break.

Speaker Hovik Abrahamyan said the opposition is doing everything to ruin the vote. His remark came after the head of Heritage parliamentary faction Zaruhi Postanjyan took away the cards for voting.

“We want to ask Ms. Postanjyan to return the card. If not, we will vote by the show of hands,” Abrahamyan said.

Later on, the lawmakers voted by the show of hands. Speaker Abrahamyan said there are 77 votes for.

When voting against, opposition parliamentary groups as well as Prosperous Armenia left the hall. The session continues without non-coalition parliamentary factions.