NEWLY-ELECTED NA WILL JUSTIFY EXPECTATIONS OF SOCIETY, BELIEVES SAMVEL
NIKOYAN

YEREVAN, JUNE 11, NOYAN TAPAN. Samvel Nikoyan, member of parliamentary
faction of RPA, believes that the legitimacy of the newly-elected
National Assembly does not arouse any suspicion. As he mentioned on
June 11 during the debate with Vardan Khachatrian, member of
Zharangutiun (Heritage) party faction, the parliament will completely
justify the expectations of the society. Samvel Nikoyan predicts that
the face of the National Assembly will change to some extent due to the
two new parties that have appeared there: Bargavach Hayastan
(Prosperous Armenia) and Zharangutiun (Heritage).

V. Khachatrian mentioned in his turn that Zharangutiun (Heritage) does
not "take" the results of the elections "for granted", as there have
been numerous distortions in the electoral process. He underlined that
Zharangutiun (Heritage) did not take part in the first sitting of NA of
the fourth convocation for two reasons: they had not received a special
notification informing the day of the sitting and the Constitutional
Court had not issued a verdict on the election results yet. In V.
Khachatrian’s words, judging from the consistent rejection "policy"
with regard to the applicants’ petitions, there is "a direct influence"
on the Constitutional Court "from above".

V. Khachatrian informed that "impulses" of discussion on the common
presidential candidate issue are already noticeable among Zharangutiun
(Heritage) and a number of extra-parliamentary opposition forces.

At the request of one of the journalists commenting on the fact of the
"two famous shooters" in public places in various periods – ARFD Bureau
member Vahan Hovhannisian and BH member Ishkhan Zakarian being elected
NA Vice-Speakers, S. Nikoyan assumed that the journalist worries about
the security of NA Speaker sitting between the two Vice-Speakers and
promised to pass that anxiety to Tigran Torosian. At the same time he
mentioned that he respects V. Hovhannisian and thinks that the country
needs a statesman like him.