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Armen Sargsyan

Armenian president resigns

by OC Media

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Armenia’s fourth president, Armen Sarkissian, has announced his resignation. The acting president will be the president of Armenia’s national assembly, Alen Simonyan. In the statement in which he published the announcement, Sarkissian criticised the limited powers of the presidential office and decried attacks on the presidential office from ‘various political groups’. ‘The President does not have the necessary tools to influence the radical processes of domestic and foreign policy in th

Armen Sargsyan

Armenia appoints president completing shift to parliamentary system

by OC Media

•2 min read

Armenia’s parliament has appointed Armen Sargsyan, who served as a prime minister in late 1990s, as the new president. This completes the country’s transition to a parliamentary system of governance. The move has been called by opposition parties as an attempt by Serzh Sargsyan (who is not related to the new president) to hold onto power as Prime Minister, after serving the maximum two terms as president. Constitutional changes passed in 2015 mean the president will now hold a mostly cer