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New Parliament of Armenia elected its chairman. He became former Vice President Alen Simonyan.
The first session of the reconvening National Assembly of Armenia began on 2 August. It was chaired by the oldest member, a representative of the Kurdish Armenian community, Prince Hasanov. The ruling party nominated Alena Simonyana, who had previously served as vice-president of the National Assembly of Armenia, as Speaker of Parliament.
Alen Simonyan was born in 1980, graduated from the Faculty of Law of Yerevan State University, served in the country's armed forces, played in KVN and became the champion of the Armenian League. Nikol Pašinjana has been a member of the leadership of the civil contract party since 2013. Simonyan was elected a member of the National Assembly of Armenia in 2018. In 2019 he was elected Vice-President of the National Assembly of Armenia.