Armenia’s ruling Civil Contract party has nominated a candidate for the country’s Minister of Justice one month after Grigor Minasyan resigned from the post.

The candidate, 32-year-old Srbuhi Galyan, now serves as the deputy coordinator of the Prosecutor General's office to confiscate illegally obtained property.

Minasyan submitted his resignation on October 1 after two-dozen ruling party Civil Contract MPS circulated a petition demanding that Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan fire him over what they described as lack of progress in reforms.

The MPs were angered when Minasyan appointed Sirvard Gevorgyan as his deputy. They claimed Gevoryan was sympathetic to former Armenian President Robert Kocharyan now heading the main opposition Hayastan alliance.

Gevorgyan resigned in response to the petition to sack her boss.

Minasyan, addressing the accusation of slow progress under his tenure, said ministers are “policy-makers” and that the implementation of steps to restore justice in the country falls on law enforcement and the courts.