Parliamentary majority nominates caretaker First Deputy PM Ararat Mirzoyan for Speaker

YEREVAN, JANUARY 14, ARMENPRESS. My Step Alliance, the parliamentary majority, has nominated caretaker First Deputy Prime Minister Ararat Mirzoyan as Speaker of Parliament.

“Ararat Mirzoyan has been actively involved in the public and political life of Armenia for more than 15 years,” MP Lilit Makunts, leader of the My Step faction, said while introducing the nomination.

Mirzoyan was earlier a Member of Parliament in 2017, and he has been Pashinyan’s first deputy since May 2018.

Edited and translated by Stepan Kocharyan