Newly-elected Armenian lawmakers receive mandates

 May 6, 2017 - 12:01 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - Chairman of the Armenian Central Electoral Commission Tigran Mukuchyan on Friday, May 5 handed parliamentary mandates to lawmakers, elected to the National Assembly on April 2.

According to the final assessment of elections provided by the Central Electoral Commission, the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) claims 58 mandates, including three for minority representatives (Yezidi, Assyrian and Kurdish), the Tsarukyan bloc has 31 seats overall, including one for a Russian community representative, while YELQ bloc and the Armenian Revolutionary Federation - Dashnaktsutyun get nine and seven parliamentary seats, respectively.

No MPs from YELQ showed up to receive their mandates, as Mukuchyan read out their names.

18 out of the 105 newly-elected lawmakers are women.