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Edgar Arakelyan to receive Lilit Stepanyan's parliamentary mandate

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Photo: GeoO / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped

Lilit Stepanyan, an MP from the Civil Contract faction, has given up the mandate. According to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Stepanyan will be appointed governor of Kotayk Province. The next candidate on the Civil Contract list has declined the mandate. Most sources give this name as Yester or Ester Sahakyan, while one gives it as Ester Ayvazyan. The mandate will go to Edgar Arakelyan, who has reportedly confirmed the information.

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Who reported first and how the others caught up. Each bar shows how many of that side's outlets covered the story.

First to report: Hetq · 22:34 · Balanced

Pro-government 2 / 6 First: Haykakan Zhamanak (Armtimes), 12 h 17 min later
Balanced 4 / 14 First: Hetq, 22:34
Opposition 2 / 21 First: News.am, 12 h 13 min later
Timeline as a list
  1. Hetq (Balanced)
  2. Factor (Balanced)
  3. Infocom (Balanced)
  4. News.am (Opposition)
  5. Haykakan Zhamanak (Armtimes) (Pro-government)
  6. Ararat News (Balanced)
  7. Civic.am (Pro-government)
  8. Yerevan.Today (Opposition)

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