Pedro Agramunt is elected PACE President
At the session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe a Spanish MP Pedro Agramunt was elected head of the structure. His candidacy was put forward by the political groups (factions) PACE - "European People's Party."According to the unwritten rules, the head of the PACE are alternately representatives of all factions of the Assembly. Agramunt is a member of PACE since 2000. In 2010-2015. He was co-rapporteur of PACE on Azerbaijan.
In January 2013 Agramunt opposed the report on political prisoners in Azerbaijan, Christoph Strasser prepared. After that Azerbaijan has intensified wave of arrests of civil society activists and journalists.
According to the Spanish press, Agramut in his youth collaborated with the Franco regime.
Agramunt was elected for a term of two years, with a renewal of the mandate in January 2017.-06D-
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