During the question and answer session between the main speaker on the draft resolution on the establishment of the parliamentary ethics committee, Taguhi Tovmasyan, a discussion broke out regarding the behavior of Andranik Kocharyan, an MP from the Civil Contract faction, and Vahagn Aleksanyan, an MP from the CP faction.
Aleksanyan stated that they were discussing A. Kocharyan’s behavior, but were not discussing the behavior of Levon Kocharyan’s assistant, a member of the Armenia faction, who beat up a journalist.
“Didn’t you hear me say that I condemn this?” “Listen carefully to my answer,” Tovmasyan said.
“No faction has made a statement, you have not created an ethics committee,” Aleksanyan noted.
T. Tovmasyan also recalled other cases. “Nikol Pashinyan’s head of security, head of the State Security Service Sargis Hovhannisyan beat journalists on the street, damaged a camera, no case was opened.”
We are in no hurry to create an ethics committee when the speaker of the National Assembly spat at a citizen. You are absolutely right, in this case we made a mistake.
“We were disappointed when Artur Hovhannisyan came and behaved like a hooligan during a meeting of the Human Rights Protection Committee,” the opposition MP said.
NA Vice Speaker Hakob Arshakyan asked to be respectful.
An echo was heard from the hall, in response Tovmasyan said: “You guys, get yourself in order, don’t interrupt me.” “You are already behaving inappropriately, shut up.”
Hakob Arshakyan demanded that Taguhi Tovmasyan’s microphone be turned off.