ARF WERE PARTY OF WORD, THE LAW WOULD NOT BE ADOPTED
Lragir, Armenia
Nov 15 2006
The odissey of the bill on expropriation that set out in summer
ended, and on November 15 the parliament majority gave 67 votes for
the bill. Three members of parliament from the ARF Dashnaktsutyun
abstained, the opposition did not vote. If the ARF Dashnaktsutiun
remained faithful to its statement and did not vote, the bill would
not be adopted because there would be less then 66 votes. From
the majority only Speaker Tigran Torosyan came off clear. After
cancelling the voting to the bill yesterday he has gone away today,
and the meeting was chaired by Vahan Hovanisyan, who was one of the
members of the ARFD who voted.
In order to adopt this bill the Republicans had declared
"mobilization". There were members of parliament who come to the
National Assembly once a year. Member of Parliament Samvel Alexanyan
entered the hall of the parliament after the voting. You are late,
several members of parliament said. One could notice the Republican
members of parlaiment first enter the office of the faction under
the surveillance of the leader of the faction Galust Sahakyan before
entering the hall. Therefore, it was natural that the people gathered
near the National Assembly swore at him more than at the others.
Unlike the previous days, this time the policemen did not allow the
victims of public needs to go near the gate of the National Assembly.
Then the policemen yielded, however. The demonstrators remembered
how "Galust had robbed the school". Then they remembered and shared
information about the son of which member of parliament had broken
the law and got away with it.