Nikol Pashinyan and Ararat Mirzoyan will be replaced in Armenia’s National Assembly by Alen Simonyan and Hrachya Hakobyan.

Simonyan, the chief editor of Ararat Magazine and araratnews.am, will represent Pashinyan’s Parliamentary District 4 (Yerevan’s Kentron, Nork-Marash, Erebuni and Nubarashen districts).

Hakobyan, who studied at the State Institute of Theater and Cinema and who’s appeared in a number of films of TV shows, will replace Mirzoyan in Parliamentary District 3.

Yelk Faction MP Pashinyan was elected prime minister on May 8, and appointed MP Mirzoyan first deputy prime minister on May 11.

Photo (from left): Alen Simonyan, Hrachya Hakobyan