Businessman Gagik Tsarukian will not lose his parliament seat after all, despite having rarely attended sessions of the National Assembly, speaker Galust Sahakian said on Thursday.
The announcement came two weeks after Tsarukian resigned as leader of the Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK), the second largest parliamentary force, and said he is retiring from politics. The move followed his defeat in a standoff with President Serzh Sarkisian.
Sarkisian told the parliament leadership on February 12 to consider stripping the tycoon of his seat because of chronic absenteeism. He also ordered law-enforcement authorities to investigate tax evasion and other “crimes” possibly committed by Tsarukian. The BHK leader capitulated in the following days, saying that he will stop challenging the government to avoid bloodshed in Armenia.
Armenian News
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