During the election for the head of the Foreign Affairs Committee in parliament, deputy from Bright Armenia Arman Babajanyan critiqued Armenia’s foreign policy.
Secretary of Prosperous Armenia Arman Abovyan accused Babajanyan of promoting pro-Azeri propaganda. He also got angry because Arman Babajanyan discussed the activities of the Armenian Ambassador to Ukraine, Andranik Manukyan. Arman Abovyan said that Babajanyan’s statements about the ambassador were false and reflected the Azeri perspective.
Edmon Marukyan requested that everyone be allowed to speak, and several of the Prosperous Armenia deputies intervened. Passions increased to the point where Prosperous Armenia deputies and Edmon Marukyan tried to get into a fistfight and invite one another to confront this outside. Naira Zohrabyan and Gevorg Petrosyan tried to stand in the way of the fighting deputies in order to prevent physical fights. Marukyan was yelling, “Are you trying to bring back the Old Armenia?”
Prosperous Armenia deputy Hrant Madatyan, in particular, got into a fight with Marukyan.
Hripsime Jebejyan
