A special session of the Armenian parliament on May 1 will discuss the election of a new prime minister of the country. This was reported by the Speaker of the National Assembly Ara Babloyan. On May 2, the election of the successor to the retired Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan.

"According to the law, the election of a new prime minister is held within seven days after the resignation of the prime minister," Gevorg Kostanyan, head of the parliamentary commission on state and legal issues, told Interfax. At the moment, only the opposition faction "Elk". They became its chairman, leader of the protest movement Nikol Pashinyan.

In case of his election to the post of prime minister, Pashinyan promised to weaken the powers of the head of government. "After my election, the new government will strengthen the mechanisms of counterbalances and complementarities. As for the existing supremo powers of the prime minister, we are reforming the system and the power of the prime minister will not be absolute, but will be balanced, "he said on the air of the Kentron television channel..

At the same time, he did not rule out the appointment of some members of the current government to the interim cabinet and said he was ready to discuss with the representatives of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia the distribution of seats in various commissions and institutes.

"We say that the main institution is the prime minister, the distribution of seats in other institutions is ready to discuss," he said..

In the event that the authorities try "not to recognize the victory of the people, we will return to the actions from which we started," the oppositionist added.. According to him, the interim government, which will be formed following the results of the prime minister's election, "will become the guarantor of fair, fair elections".