MELBOURNE: The Armenian National Committee of Australia
(ANC Australia) has welcomed the pre-selection of Hovig Melkonian as the
Australian Labor Party's candidate for the Federal seat of Casey in Victoria. Melkonian
is a current ANC Australia National Board member and he will take an extended
leave of absence from his position to contest the election, which will likely
take place no later than 2016.
79% of Labor members in the Casey branch supported
Melkonian’s nomination as their Party's candidate and he was pre-selected
unopposed by Labor’s public office selection committee.
“I'm honoured to have earned the support of rank-and-file
members to contest the next federal election as the Labor candidate for Casey,”
Melkonian said.
“This is the part of the world where I grew up. I’m very
proud to have the opportunity to represent this community.”
Melkonian will be running against the incumbent Liberal
Member for Casey and new Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tony Smith
MP.
Melkonian studied Advanced Manufacturing and Mechatronics
Engineering at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT). He has also
served in the National Union of Students as a Welfare Officer and as an RMIT
Council Member.
Greg Soghomonian, Chairman of ANC Australia, said: “We
warmly welcome the pre-selection of Hovig as the Labor candidate for Casey.
Participation in public office is an important element for the development of
our nation and we are confident that if elected, Hovig will make an enormous
contribution to Australia.”
Vache Kahramanian, Executive director of ANC Australia,
echoed these sentiments: “I have had the great pleasure of working with Hovig
for many years. He has been a great asset to the Armenian National Committee
and he will be an even greater asset to the Australian nation.”
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