ANC Australia Board Member Hovig Melkonian to run for Federal Parliament

ANC Australia board member Hovig Melkonian

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 honored to have earned the support of rank-and-file members to contest the next federal election as the Labor candidate for Casey,”