RPA ELECTS PARTY BOARD HEADED BY SERGE SARGSIAN
YEREVAN, JULY 24, NOYAN TAPAN. "Today the Republican Party of Armenia
has 30 thousand members, the party has 61 territorial organizations
and more than 800 primary ones," RA Prime Minister Andranik Margarian,
Chairman of RPA, declared on July 22, at the opening of the 10th
special congress of RPA.
According to him, the convocation of the party’s special congress
is conditioned by two main reasons. The first is connected with the
necessity to make changes in the party program, in particular, to make
some provisions more harmonious with the main ideological directions
accepted in the world today. And the second citcumstance is to make
changes to the regulations, in particular, to restore the status
of Chairman of party Board, which, according to Andranik Margarian,
will enable to involve wider layers of party members in the system
of party’s horizontal government.
The congress held with participation of 723 delegates adopted changes
to the party regulations and elected 15 people to the party Board,
the Chairman of which became Serge Sargsian, RA Defence Minister,
Chairman of the National Security Council under RA President. Among
newly elected members of the Board are MPs Haroutiun Pambukian,
Ruben Hayrapetian, Sasun Mikayelian, RA Minister of Economy and
Finance Vardan Khachatrian, Yerevan Mayor Yervand Zakharian, Prefect
of Yerevan Kentron community Gagik Beglarian and others.