WILL POSTANJYAN BECOME A SUBSTITUTE?

A1Plus.am
14/01/10

"The NA Chairman has no grounds to reject the appeal by the "Country
of Law" faction, but there is no decision yet," speaker for the NA
Chairman Nairi Petrosyan told "A1+" today.

Let us remind that head of the "Country of Law" (OEK) Heghine
Bisharyan had appealed to the NA Chairman to include their faction
member Artsruni Aghajanyan in the PACE delegation instead of Zaruhi
Postanjyan.

The basis of the appeal is that since the ARF’s drop-out from the
coalition, the relationship between forces in the main group of the
PACE delegation hasn’t expressed the proportion of the parliamentary
forces.

If the NA upholds the appeal by "Country of Law" (OEK), member of the
"Heritage" faction, oppositionist Zaruhi Postanjyan will be included
in the substituting group and will be deprived of the right to vote
and will not have the opportunity to participate in the monitoring
sessions.

Why was it decided to take out Zaruhi Postanjyan from the main group
of the delegation and not the other oppositionist Armen Rustamyan? In
response, Nairi Petrosyan said: "The ARF faction is larger." According
to Nairi Petrosyan, they are going along with the PACE rules and
regulations.

In her conversation with "A1+", Postanjyan noted that she is being
taken out mainly by the initiative of the NA Chairman because "the
NA Chairman doesn’t need any additional comments, speeches. But the
people voted for me for me to represent their interests and defend
their rights," said Zaruhi Postanjyan.

Nairi Petrosyan informed that the member of the substituting group
is not deprived of the right to speak.