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Time in Yerevan: 11:07,   29 March 2024

Artsakh’s Parliament to choose between incumbent and opposition leader in presidential election

Artsakh’s Parliament to choose between incumbent and opposition leader in presidential 
election

YEREVAN, JULY 19, ARMENPRESS. The Parliament of Artsakh has convened a special session today, where lawmakers will elect the country’s president.

In accordance to the country’s constitution, the Parliament will elect a president who will serve until the end of the current parliament’s mandate – 2020, after which a nationwide presidential election will be held.

Two candidates have been nominated for the presidential seat – the incumbent President Bako Sahakyan, and leader of the opposition Movement 88 parliamentary faction Eduard Aghabekyan.

The special session kicked off at 11:00.

The candidates will deliver remarks and present their programs.

Artsakh’s lawmakers will then ask questions to the candidates, which will be followed by a voting.

The candidate who will receive 2/3 of the votes of lawmakers will be declared winner.

Three factions of the Artsakhi parliament – Fatherland, Democracy and Federation, have endorsed the incumbent president.

 

 








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