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‘The boycott of the parliamentary majority is a bigger defeat than if they came, participated in the extraordinary session and even if the law passed’ said Ashot Sargsyan, a former MP and participant of the campaign at the entrance of the NA to the reporter of ‘Pastinfo.am’ referring to the parliamentary session initiated by the opposition and failed by the RPA.

The secretary of the ‘ANC’ fraction Aram Manoukyan stated that they were interested in the discussion. ‘Levon Zourabyan also said about mutual concessions regarding some points the day before, so that the RPA would have the chance to come, participate, present its arguments’ he said adding that in case the discussion took place, the RPA members could ‘fail any suggestion by voting’.

‘I think that especially now all the political powers, except for the RPA, must and will be more prone to developing a joint project, preparing for the upcoming presidential elections, having a common base, common approach and common program’ concluded A. Manoukyan.

The ARF fraction, according to Armen Roustamyan, plans to apply to the NA Ethics Committee since it considers that by their behavior the Republicans ‘violated the MP duties and consequently the ethic rules, the duty of calling NA session was also violated’.

The Parliamentary opposition now does not have a unanimous decision. However, the fractions will try to come to unanimous conclusions after joint discussions.

The RPA takes all this quite easy. According to the fraction leader Galoust Sahakyan, the critics of the parliamentary minority are ‘artificially created’. To the question of the reporter of ‘Pastinfo’ whether the RPA considers the changes to the Electoral Code necessary, G. Sahakyan said ‘In any case, before any national election the Electoral Code is being reviewed once more. Months ago the EC was discussed, we even tried to involve the ANC, however, they were ‘very severe’.

As for certain suggested legislative changes, the Republicans, as G. Sahakyan assured, of course got familiarized with the project, especially that it ‘was thoroughly analyzed by the Government, which coincides with the opinion of the RPA’. The RPA leader is convinced that it is possible to discuss, to adopt or not to adopt, but the presidential elections are coming soon. ‘It is not logical to change the rules of the game today, and the discussion becomes a useless activity’ highlighted G. Sahakyan.