HERITAGE RESHUFFLE: POSTANJYAN BECOMES NEW LEADER OF PARLIAMENTARY FACTION
POLITICS | 22.10.13 | 14:31
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Zaruhi Postanjyan has been elected new head of the opposition Heritage
faction in parliament. The change comes after Ruben Hakobyan announced
his decision to resign as faction leader earlier today.
Talking to media in parliament Hakobyan said Heritage Party leader
Raffi Hovannisian had been notified about his move well in advance. He
left questions about reasons for his step without commentary, only
saying that he had decided to step down as faction leader before the
recent scandal around Postanjyan in the wake of her controversial
question to President Serzh Sargsyan about his gambling habit at the
PACE plenary session in Strasbourg on October 2.
Unlike a majority of Heritage members Hakobyan then was critical of
Postanjyan’s behavior. Representatives of the ruling party in Armenia
called her statement in Strasbourg slanderous and the parliament
speaker threatened to expel her from the Armenian delegation to
the PACE.
Postanjian, meanwhile, would not be drawn into speculation about the
reasons for Hakobyan’s decision either.