Nikol Pashinyan has been appointed as head of National Assembly’s Ethics Committee. Recall that the first session of the committee shall be conducted on September 24 to hear the case of civic activist Vardges Gaspari VS MP Samvel Aleksanyan. Responding to news.am question on depriving Vardan Ayvazyan of his mandate Pashinyan’s secretary noted that the Ethics Committee needs to receive a formal request to start hearings. Needs to be mentioned that Ethics Committee is chaired on a rotational basis, when parties assign their candidates and president of the parliament decides on the position. David Harutyunyan has been the first chairman of the committee in the new session of the parliament.
