Now, when Serzh Sargsyan is likely to claim the post of Prime Minister, it is clear that the post of First Deputy Prime Minister will be given to Karen Karapetyan. Nikol Pashinyan, the leader of the “Exit” faction, announced this in the National Assembly, adding that according to this, taking away the post of Prime Minister from Karapetyan, they are giving him an incentive award in return.

“He was offered the prime minister’s seat earlier, but now it is being taken away from him. In order not to sound impolite, I want to tone it down a bit. And so that the people don’t notice all that, they want to give the presidential seat to Armen Sarkissian, who smiles beautifully at everyone and everywhere. They will take him out of the presidential residence and give him a European-renovated apartment on Prospect. As if sit there and smile,” declared Pashinyan.

Chairman of the Standing Committee on State-Legal Affairs of the National Assembly against the opposition MP’s statement Hrayr Tovmasyan  urged not to look for an element of conspiracy, because the Constitution provides for several positions of deputy prime ministers and it is not prohibited to appoint a first deputy prime minister, whose primacy will be purely nominal.

“He will replace the prime minister during his absence,” Tovmasyan emphasized.

Earlier we informed that the first deputy prime minister will also be in the new Security Council, which will not include the President of RA and the Speaker of the National Assembly.

According to the rumors, that position will be filled by the current Prime Minister Karen Karapetyan. Vache Gabrielyan is considered the most likely candidate for the position of Deputy Prime Minister.