"Hraparak" daily writes: Hot competition is expected for the positions of chairpersons of the NA standing committees. Especially tough battles are going on for the position of the head of the permanent defense and security committee.
According to our information, four candidates have been nominated. the vice-chairman of the commission, Armen Khachatryan, who is also a member of the board, another member of the board, Vilen Gabrielyan, the head of the ECM, Sasun Mikayelyan, and the former minister of the environment, Hakob Simidyan. It is noteworthy that he did not even serve in the army, but he claims to head the National Defense Committee, and there is not a single line about his service in his official biography.
The fact of the nomination of Sasun Mikayelyan is no less remarkable, this means that he takes the deputy mandate and enters the parliament.
We recently wrote that he wants to take the mandate, because in the near future, according to the news, ECM will be dissolved and will become "Veterans' Union" NGO. Andranik Kocharyan, the current chairman of the commission, was not nominated, he said in his last briefing that if the faction elects the chairman of the commission, he will be nominated, if not, he will most likely refuse, implying that since he is non-partisan, he is in unequal conditions with the CP candidates.
