In response to our question what he thought about Levon Ter-Petrossian’s calling him, along with the others, “coward, faint-hearted, rogue, arrogant, oppressor” etc. in recent days, since
he had also participated in the escape, Hovhannes Sahakyan, an RPA MP, said during a conversation with www.aravot.am: “There is certain language that we ought not to use. We can describe both Levon Zurabyan and the ANC with ruder language. Respecting the institution of the first president, I will try not to give examples of unscrupulousness during his tenure. However, they are too many, our compatriots are also aware of them.”
As for the “escape,” Hovhannes Sahakyan said that there is a term boycott common in political science, and they executed their right to that: “If someone has escaped from somewhere, it was representatives of political forces who escaped from the meetings of this or that committee, the National Assembly chamber because of not having an opinion, in order not to participate, not to express an opinion. That is an escape.”
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We also asked him to tell the names of those whom the MP meant, “You have probably noticed that I never tell names. Everyone knows whom we mean, and I don’t think that one should put great effort to understand whom we mean.”
He urged political forces to give up on that slang, sober up a bit and realize that they were in the National Assembly: “Perhaps, they are surprised that they are in the National Assembly, but let them try to be a bit more civilized, otherwise, everyone knows what nicknames or language one can use to describe them.”
In response to our observation that the ANC MPs didn’t have nicknames, Hovhannes Sahakyan said: “If one goes into it, one can find those.”
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