Epress.am News from Armenia
Four non-ruling party factions in the National Assembly, Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK), Armenian National Congress (HAK), Heritage Party, and Rule of Law Party (OEK), have once again attempted to call for an extraordinary session to discuss attacks on citizens during the past month. The factions' representatives stated their second attempt after their closed meeting. The first attempt was overturned yesterday by the Republican Party․
HAK faction MP Gagik Jhangiryan stated that the authorities have not succeeded in scaring neither the Karabakh War’s veterans nor Aram Manukyan. According to him, the attacks were meant to keep those individuals away from a citizens' rebellion. The four factions want to also discuss the dram’s depreciation and inflation during the session.
BHK faction secretary Naira Zohrabyan noted that MPs who are economists are working on new economic related legislative packages, which would be presented to the National Assembly. According to her, only blaming the Russian ruble’s depreciation is not right in the current economic situation.
“An unprecedented force majeure situation has been created in the country, which has brought the population to poverty, inflation, and we think that all the responsible sides, Central Bank and Government, have to be in the (NA) hall,” said Naira Zohrabyan. She also noted that police officials must be present at the extraordinary session, in order to discuss the past month’s attacks and Deputy Police Chief Levon Yeranosyan’s statement. The latter, according Zohrabyan, only received a reprimand.
To the question of why the Rule of Law Party participated in the trio’s discussion and to whether the trio will turn into a quartet again (formerly the ARF-D was cooperating with the three parties), OEK member Mher Shahgeldyan replied that it is too early to speak about such developments. He made a remark that without joining any groups OEK has managed to cooperate with the non-ruling trio in certain issues.