PARLIAMENTARY MINORITY TRIES TO BOYCOTT SESSION OF RA NA, MONDAY
ArmInfo
2007-10-22 22:50:00
Parliamentary minority, "Heritage" faction in particular, made
an attempt to frustrate regular session of the Armenian National
Assembly, Monday.
To note, the session started at 12:00, and the agenda of the National
Assembly’s four-day session was approved only at 5:00pm. "Orinats
Yerkir" faction twice took 20-minute breaks before the ballot. After
that "Heritage" faction also availed itself the same right, taking
20-minute breaks thrice before the ballot, which was on the session’s
agenda. In this way, they tried to boycott the National Assembly’s
session. For his part, Leader of Republican Party Karen Karapetyan
also asked for a 20-minute break before the ballot. Before the adoption
of the last law "On investigative-search activity" "Heritage" faction
took a 20-minute break for the fourth time.
In answer to journalists’ question, if the opposition tries to
boycott the National Assembly’s work, Speaker of the Armenian National
Assembly Tigran Torosyan said he had never given such generalizing
assessments either to the opposition or to the authority. "Simply,
there is the feeling that some people came to the NA not to carry
out legislative activity but to play childish games. This is the
whole reality". However, according to T. Torosyan, there is nothing
awful, as the opposition has behaved in this way before, too, but
then everything went all right.
For his part, Secretary of the Republican Party Samvel Nikoyan told
ArmInfo correspondent that the opposition makes efforts to reduce
efficiency and productivity of the National Assembly, commenting on
the conduct of the opposition minority. Moreover, according to the
Deputy, the oppositionists lose their reputation and trust both among
mass media representatives and among the nation.