Armenian delegation supported Cyprus candidate during PACE head elections
ArmInfo. In the first round of the elections of the head of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, the Armenian delegation supported the candidacy of Cyprus representative Stella Kyriakides.
The Armenian delegation justified its position by the fact that the name of the representative of Cyprus is not involved in any scandals or deals, during the PACE's work, it has established itself as a principled, objective and honest politician.
In general, two candidates were nominated for the post of PACE head, the second is Lithuanian representative Emanuelis Zingeris. According to the PACE regulations, the head of the organization should be elected by an absolute majority of the deputies' votes (152 people), if the required number of votes is not collected, a second round of voting is appointed. On it, the candidate must also obtain an absolute majority of votes. If, in this case too, the votes are not enough, a third round is appointed, in order to pass in which it is enough to gain a comparative majority of votes.
To note, already former head of PACE Pedro Agramunt recently resigned, thus preventing the procedure of his impeachment, which had already been planned. The reason for the resignation of Agramunt was the fact that his name was exaggerated in a corruption scandal involving Azerbaijan. In addition, European parliamentarians did not like the fact that during his tenure as PACE head, together with the Russian delegation, he visited Syria and met with President Assad. Then he was accused of aiding Russian interests.