Artur Vanetsyan, leader of the opposition "With Honor" Faction of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia (RA) and chairman of the opposition Homeland Party, has renounced his parliamentary mandate. On Tuesday, he issued a respective statement which reads as follows, in particular:

"Today, in the manner prescribed by law, I have submitted a petition to resign from my parliamentary mandate. (…). The reason is obvious: the RA citizen had voted for us to stop the destructive activities of these authorities and to bring the country out of the disaster. However, in my opinion, this parliament has ceased to be an effective platform for achieving the goal.

“The Board of the Homeland Party has made a decision to continue [its] activities outside the parliament. By the decision of the party, the ‘With Honor’ bloc we formed with the [former ruling] RPA [party] (…) [hereby] de jure and de facto ceases to exist."