Armenia’s two main opposition parties continued to denounce the government on Tuesday for reducing the number of its ministries from 17 to 12 and refusing to limit Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s powers.
Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) leader Gagik Tsarukian on Monday dismissed pro-government lawmakers’ claims that he may be engaged in entrepreneurial activities in breach of Armenia’s constitution and laws.
Gagik Tsarukian, a wealthy businessman leading Armenia’s largest parliamentary opposition force, might be expelled from the National Assembly as a result of an inquiry ordered by prosecutors on Thursday.
Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) leader Gagik Tsarukian denied on Wednesday any connection between his political activities and business interests, comparing himself to U.S. President Donald Trump and Italy’s former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
Law-enforcement authorities had sufficient grounds to bring corruption charges against the head of an Armenian anti-graft agency, Prosecutor-General Artur Davtian insisted on Wednesday.
The National Assembly approved on Friday a government bill which the opposition Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) said is not far-reaching enough to protect domestic manufacturers of cement against cheap imports from neighboring Iran.
Tensions between Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s alliance and Gagik Tsarukian’s Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) rose on Thursday as their senior representatives traded fresh accusations in the parliament.
The opposition minority in the Armenian parliament condemned the government on Wednesday for reducing the number of its ministries from 17 to 12 and refusing to limit Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s powers.
The National Assembly on Tuesday refused to appoint a new member of Armenia’s Constitutional Court nominated by President Armen Sarkissian.
A parliament deputy who was until recently Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) leader Gagik Tsarukian’s chief bodyguard has been convicted of violent assault and sentenced to three and a half years in prison.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Tuesday threw his weight behind Defense Minister Davit Tonoyan, who has seemingly ruled out Armenian territorial concessions to Azerbaijan and promised a more offensive posture against the Azerbaijani army.
The president of the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly (PACE), Liliane Maury Pasquier, praised Armenia’s “democratic institutions” and inaugurated a square in Yerevan named after Europe during a three-day visit to the country which ended on Thursday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian claimed to be delivering on his repeated pledges to carry out an “economic revolution” in Armenia as he presented the first results of his government’s policies to the parliament on Wednesday.
Armenia’s new leadership has had trouble recruiting women for high-ranking state posts, a senior lawmaker said on Friday, commenting on a continuing lack of female presence in the government.
The supervisory board of Yerevan State University (YSU) on Thursday narrowly failed to sack its long-serving rector, Aram Simonian, who is under growing pressure by the Armenian government to resign.
The former longtime mayor of the central Armenian town of Hrazdan affiliated with former President Serzh Sarkisian’s Republican Party (HHK) was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of embezzling public funds.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s Civil Contract party is careful not to admit a large number of new members even though thousands of Armenians are seeking to join it, a senior party member said on Tuesday.
The former mayors of two Armenian villages have been reelected just months after resigning under pressure from angry local residents.
Former President Levon Ter-Petrosian was questioned by an Armenian-law-enforcement body on Thursday as a witness in its ongoing investigation into the 2008 post-election violence in Yerevan.
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) is engaged in a “constructive” dialogue with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian more than three months after being driven out of his government, a leader of the party said on Tuesday.
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