YEREVAN. – The battle has begun at the parliament for the National Assembly (NA) Speaker’s post, Hraparak daily writes.  

“The most likely candidate is Deputy Speaker Samvel Nikoyan, who is supported by PM Tigran Sargsyan. In the meantime, the still NA Speaker Hovik Abrahamyan would not be against seeing Hermine Naghdalyan in his stead. And the result of this battle was yesterday’s (Wednesday) press conference, which was convened by members of the Norashen 2007 Cooperative, whose participants accused Naghdalyan and her husband of usury and taking their apartments away. Nikoyan’s opponents, on the other hand, accuse him of using too much alcohol and also involving journalists in this,” Hraparak writes.