Today two Deputies – Artur Gevorgyan and Shirak Torosyan announced on leaving the Republican Faction. The Vice President of the Parliament of Armenia, Eduard Sharmazanov said: “It is not the first case in the political processes that people leave and come back.”
As far as Artur Gevorgyan’s decision is concerned, Sharmazanov said that the Faction will give its assessment, and as regards Shirak Torosyan, he said: “The Faction decided univocally to express its political viewpoint on that situation and besides his application, the Faction manifested a political decision and Shirak Torosyan left the Faction.”
Asked would there be other people to leave the Republican Faction, he replied that politics is an art of possible: “They join and leave the party, they leave it for different reasons.”
Asked if there is a danger in place that the Republican Faction will constitute a minority, he replied that at the moment he did not see suchlike danger and did not have such information.
If he considered Artur Gevorgyan and Shirak Torosyan’s renouncement of their mandate correct, he responded that the truth is relative. The “Rules of Procedure” of the National Assembly of Armenia give that opportunity.
“There are different approaches, I had said that I the Faction decides to vote in favor, I am going to vote against and renounce my mandate.”
Referring to Felix Tsolakyan, Sharmazanov said that they had given an admonition in the previous session, there is no decision of leaving the Faction, but it is for certain: “No ambiguous standards should be present within the Faction.”
Artur Gevorgyan had announced that this is a historical moment, he simply does not indicate the issues of the Republican Faction. To the above mentioned, Sharmazanov responded: “No one has indicated the issues of our authority more and higher than Serzh Sargsyan. Let each authority have the half of the courage our authority has and speak about his/her mistakes.”
Hripsime JEBEJYAN
