Extreme day in the Armenian parliament - scandals, fights and disassembly
ArmInfo. Today's meeting of the National Assembly of Armenia was marked by an unprecedented surge of emotions
The beginning of the meeting was "marred" by accusations of the Yelk bloc against the leadership of the parliament in falsifying the results of the voting on the draft law on introducing amendments and additions to the Judicial Code. The document, as the Constitutional Law, was to be adopted by 3/5 votes (63 votes in favor). However, on the scoreboard after the vote the figure 61 was lit, that is, the document was rejected. However, Speaker of the Parliament Ara Babloyan said that the figure of the deputy speaker Arpine Hovhannisyan is added to this figure, while on her business trip she reported in writing that she was voting for the document. A deputy from the Republican Party faction Rustam Makhmudyan also said that he voted "for", he simply did not have a technical device for voting.
Meanwhile, the deputy from the Tsaroukyan bloc, who before the vote announced his non-participation in it, Napoleon Azizyan, also voted "for" the document. However, the representatives of the "Elk" bloc tried to present this as an error taking into account the negative position of the "Tsaroukian" bloc to the document. In view of all this, the representatives of "Elk" insisted on the need for a repeat vote on the document, in order to reliably understand who was behind and who was against.
However, Vice Speaker Edward Sharmazanov said that the vote was lawful, Napoleon Azizyan does not refute his position, therefore the document passed.
Nevertheless, an hour later the MP from the Tsaroukyan bloc Vahe Enfiadjian stated from the rostrum of the parliament that Azizyan, like other MPs from the bloc, was not going to vote on the document, his device worked by accident. "Azizyan informed the NA secretariat about this, and he also shouted about his position from the spot," Enfiagian assured.
Sharmazanov quarreled with this, saying that Azizyan could take a voice during the meeting and say that he had voted by mistake, which was not done, therefore everything went according to the law.
The factions of the "Elk" and "Tsaroukyan" blocs fled noisily and demonstratively to the parliament hall in protest against the unlawful actions of the ruling majority.
However, the incident was not exhausted and continued in the more violent manifestation in the office of the deputy from the "Tsaroukyan" block, David Manukyan. The reason for the next heat of passion was the fact that the deputy from the bloc, Sergey Bagratyan, called his fellow party member Napoleon Azizyan "a prostitute" for opposing the position of the faction in favor of the document. For Azizyan decided to intercede another MP Arthur Manukyan, who told Bagratyan that Azizyan is a friend of his father, and he will not allow him to insult. The verbal skirmish gradually turned into a fight between the thirty-year-old Manukyan and the sixty-year-old Bagratyan. More than 15 minutes the deputies beat and insulted each other. And only after 15 minutes their party members managed to separate the heated deputies.