Identifier
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06YEREVAN714
2006-05-25 12:39:00
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Embassy Yerevan
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FORMER ORINATS YERKIR DEPUTIES ESTABLISH NEW
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UNCLAS YEREVAN 000714
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
DEPT FOR EUR/CARC
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PGOV PREL AM
SUBJECT: FORMER ORINATS YERKIR DEPUTIES ESTABLISH NEW
PRO-GOVERNMENTAL PARLIAMENTARY GROUP
REF: YEREVAN 647
Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect
accordingly.
UNCLAS YEREVAN 000714
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
DEPT FOR EUR/CARC
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PGOV PREL AM
SUBJECT: FORMER ORINATS YERKIR DEPUTIES ESTABLISH NEW
PRO-GOVERNMENTAL PARLIAMENTARY GROUP
REF: YEREVAN 647
Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect
accordingly.
1. (SBU) On May 25, ten (of eleven) National Assembly
members who left outgoing Speaker Artur Baghdasarian's
Orinats Yerkir (OY) Party Faction, created a new deputy
group called Gortsarar (Entrepreneur). The members of
Gortsarar elected Grigor Margaryan, the owner of
"Bellagio" restaurants network, to be their leader.
The group, which abandoned the OY as a result of
alleged pressure from the Presidential administration,
is likely to remain loyal to the Government.
2. (SBU) Six members of this group were elected into
the National Assembly through the Orinats Yerkir party
list; they did not, however, give up their mandates
after leaving the party. (Note: Parliamentary bylaws
contain no mechanism to force someone who leaves a
party (and was elected via the party list) to give up
his seat, but leave it to the member of parliament's
individual conscience to comply with the intent of the
rules. End Note.) Due to this gap in the rules, the
OY faction (now down to nine members) will no longer
control all twelve seats it won from the party list in
2003.
EVANS
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
DEPT FOR EUR/CARC
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PGOV PREL AM
SUBJECT: FORMER ORINATS YERKIR DEPUTIES ESTABLISH NEW
PRO-GOVERNMENTAL PARLIAMENTARY GROUP
REF: YEREVAN 647
Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect
accordingly.
1. (SBU) On May 25, ten (of eleven) National Assembly
members who left outgoing Speaker Artur Baghdasarian's
Orinats Yerkir (OY) Party Faction, created a new deputy
group called Gortsarar (Entrepreneur). The members of
Gortsarar elected Grigor Margaryan, the owner of
"Bellagio" restaurants network, to be their leader.
The group, which abandoned the OY as a result of
alleged pressure from the Presidential administration,
is likely to remain loyal to the Government.
2. (SBU) Six members of this group were elected into
the National Assembly through the Orinats Yerkir party
list; they did not, however, give up their mandates
after leaving the party. (Note: Parliamentary bylaws
contain no mechanism to force someone who leaves a
party (and was elected via the party list) to give up
his seat, but leave it to the member of parliament's
individual conscience to comply with the intent of the
rules. End Note.) Due to this gap in the rules, the
OY faction (now down to nine members) will no longer
control all twelve seats it won from the party list in
2003.
EVANS