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Republicans to name the next Armenian PM after the Executive Body and Board Session today
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YEREVAN, APRIL 13, ARMENPRESS: The session of the Executive Body of theRepublican Party of Armenia has just kicked off. The Board of the Republican Party will take place later today. Armenpress reports that Executive Body members, the resigned Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Tigran Sargsyan, the Chairman of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia Hovik Abrahamyan, the Chairman of the Republican Party of Armenia Faction Galust Sahakyan, the Deputy Chairwoman of the National Assembly Hermine Naghdalyan, the Deputy Chairman of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia Eduard Sharmazanov, acting Ministers Armen Ashotyan. Hranush Hakobyan, Gagik Beglaryan, Yerevan Mayor Taron Margaryan have already arrived in the office. The President of the Republic of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan presides over the ongoing session.
The issue of the Prime Minister’s candidacy is expected to be discussed during the session and then represented to the media.
The Republican Party of Armenia (RPA, established in 1990), is one of the unique organizations operating on the Armenian political scene, with decades-old ideological and political roots. The RPA ideological basis is Garegin Nzhdeh’s teaching. Some members of clandestine National United Party of 1967-1987 continue their unique work within the party and its Board. In this regard the RPA is the ideological and political successor of Nzhdeh Tseghakron Professios and National United Party, which in the days fateful for Armenian people became the torch bearers of the ideas of independence both in Diaspora and Armenia.
The birth of the RPA is also organically linked to the 1988 National Awakening, fight for independence and Artsakh national liberation struggle. The military-political unit Army of Independence, formed at the outset of the struggle, became the organizational basis of the RPA establishment. On 2 April 1990 the founding council composed of the detachment commanders of the Army of Independence proclaimed the establishment of the Republican Party of Armenia in Yerevan and became the first officially registered socio-political organizationin the Republic of Armenia (registered on 14 May 1991).
