YEREVAN. – Speaker of the National Assembly (NA) of Armenia, Ararat Mirzoyan, on Thursday sent to the NA Standing Committee on State and Legal Affairs the draft decision to petition to the Constitutional Court (CC) with a request to terminate the powers of serving CC President Hrayr Tovmasyan.

“In the manner prescribed, I sent to the NA Committee on State and Legal Affairs—for a conclusion—the NA draft decision, which was submitted by the NA [majority] My Step faction, on petitioning to the CC on the matter of terminating the powers of Hrayr Tovmasyan,” Mirzoyan noted in a Facebook post.