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The NA extraordinary session will be called on November 21, at 12:00. The package of projects on making changes and additions to the law on the population state registrar in the RA Electoral and Criminal Codes is on the agenda.

The initiative of extraordinary session belongs to the authors of the legislative package, i.e. the members of the ANC fraction. Members of fractions ‘Prosperous Armenia’, ARF and ‘Heritage’ joined the initiative by signatures.

According to the NA regulatory law an extraordinary session is called by the NA President, by the RA President, 1/3 of the total number of the MPs, i.e. 44, or by the initiative of the Government. It includes the agenda, deadlines and projects of agenda questions. By the way, the NA session is competent, in case the quorum is ensured, i.e. more than half of the MPs registered by the order, i.e. 66 MPs. If the session is not competent, then the registration is open until the quorum is ensured, however, not more than 3 hours. If the quorum is not formed within that period of time, the sessions of that day are considered failed.

The political majority members have been declaring from yesterday that they do not consider ensuring the quorum possible, since the coalition powers voted against that question during the NA plenary session. The RPA fraction leader Galoust Sahayan stated in today’s briefing that the RPA ‘will stay far from the field of nonsense’. According to his clarification the opposition simply tries to activate before the presidential elections, whereas the RPA has no reason for getting activated.

Let us note that 4 parliamentary powers that signed under the initiative have 53 MPs, 2 more MPs are independent, which means that they are not involved in any fraction. Other 74 MPs represent the political coalition, the RPA and the ‘Orinac Yerkir’, 68 and 6 respectively.