“This is the new Armenia, period.
“This is the Armenia with human rights and democracy, period.
“This is the Armenia with rule of law, period…,” 4 days after the speech of the president, Mher Sedrakyan, a Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) MP, threatens to break A1+ journalist Mher Arshakyan’s jaw, “Get out of here, or else I will break your jaw.”
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Human rights advocate Vardan Harutyunyan’s impression is the following, “While talking about Armenia, the president was talking about Norway and Canada, where there are no breaches of law, our current oligarchs, MPs, where there is no permissiveness, which has been created by the country’s president himself.”
According Mr. Harutyunyan, the Republican MP’s behavior today contradicts the claims made by the President of the Republic of Armenia, “That incident testifies to the contradiction between what he said and our reality. The president chose, picked people of that very level, and he appears to the world through those people. There are signs of permissiveness in the Republican Party, but I don’t want to attribute that to the party, they are beyond any party, the Republican Party. That is how they are; they just act under the Republican flag today. The president should start the struggle against permissiveness from his entourage. We can see both his family members and his fellow party members.”
Arpine SIMONYAN
