YEREVAN. – Government representatives were not in attendance to the second-reading debates of the bill on amendments and addenda to the Code on Administrative Offenses at the Standing Committee on Defense and Security of the National Assembly of Armenia, and this caused the dissatisfaction of Andranik Kocharyan, chair of the aforesaid committee and MP of the ruling My Step alliance.

Kocharyan assured that this issue would definitely be raised, stressing that such behavior was simply unacceptable.

Gevorg Gorgisyan, secretary of the opposition Bright Armenia faction in parliament, was also outraged by the absence of government representatives, and suggested that the debates on this legislative initiative be continued as a sign of disrespect in return.

At the request of MP Gevorg Papoyan, the author of the bill and My Step MP, the committee continued its work after a five-minute break, and this bill was debated on.