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Politics

Lilit Stepanyan to give up mandate and become Kotayk governor

First reported by Armenpress: Yesterday, 20:10

Updated 11:48, 30 sources

Politics. Photo: parliament.am, cropped
Photo: parliament.am, cropped

On October 20, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced that the board of the Civil Contract party had decided to appoint MP Lilit Stepanyan as governor of Kotayk Province, and that she will give up her parliamentary mandate. Stepanyan will replace Aharon Sahakyan, who was dismissed from the post on July 30. According to Civil Contract's electoral list, the next candidate in line for the mandate is Ester Sahakyan.

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Who reported first, who followed. Each dot is one outlet.

Timeline as a list
  1. Armenpress (Pro-government)
  2. Radar Armenia (Opposition)
  3. Ararat News (Balanced)
  4. Tert.am (Opposition)
  5. News.am (Opposition)
  6. Past / Pastinfo (Opposition)
  7. CivilNet (Balanced)
  8. 24news.am (Opposition)
  9. Public TV news (H1 / Lurer) (Pro-government)
  10. Sputnik Armenia (Foreign)
  11. Haykakan Zhamanak (Armtimes) (Pro-government)
  12. Oragir.news (Opposition)
  13. Yerevan.Today (Opposition)
  14. Factor (Balanced)
  15. Armlur / Joghovurd (Opposition)
  16. Infocom (Balanced)
  17. Hraparak (Opposition)
  18. 168 Zham (Opposition)
  19. Shant TV / Shantnews (Balanced)
  20. Civic.am (Pro-government)
  21. Azatutyun (RFE/RL) (Balanced)
  22. Public Radio of Armenia (Pro-government)
  23. Mediahub (Opposition)
  24. Livenews.am (Opposition)
  25. Mamul.am (Balanced)
  26. 1in.am (Balanced)
  27. FreeNews (Pro-government)
  28. Azg (Opposition)
  29. Aravot (Balanced)
  30. Golos Armenii (Opposition)

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