Samvel Balasanyan, who recently joined the Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) has been elected vice-speaker of the Armenian National Assembly.

Eighty-three of the 131 Armenian MPs participated in a secret ballot. Salasanyan was elected with 74 to six, with three abstentions.

Under the coalition agreement, this post “belongs” to the PAP. The former vice-speaker Arevik Petrposyan resigned from the post the other day.

NEWS.am reminds readers that Samvel Balasanyan, who owns the Gyumri brewery, was a member of the Country of Law Party. He claimed Country of Law was “a mark on [his] forehead.” However, after the party joined the Opposition, Balasanyan left it and joined the PAP