Armenia’s Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan officially submitted his resignation at a government session on September 8, Armenian Weekly reports.
“The [Armenian] society and the government need to unite their efforts. We need a new beginning. That is why I have decided to resign and to give our President an opportunity to form a new government. We must think about everyone’s success and give a chance to a new government,” he said during his formal resignation speech.
Reports of Abrahamyan’s resignation began surfacing a day earlier on September 7.
On this day, local media outlets also began reporting that Abrahamyan would be replaced by technocrat Karen Karapetyan. The 53-year-old Karapetyan is the former head of the national gas distributing company ArmRosGazprom and served as Yerevan’s mayor from December 2010 to November 2011.
Abrahamyan was appointed prime minister in 2014.
