make preferableYEREVAN. – In terms of quality, Armenia’s current National Assembly (NA) is lot higher than the previous two, ruling Republican Party MP Manvel Badeyan said during a press conference on Monday.
He noted that he had this impression from the views expressed during the NA discussions on the Government’s program.
“Overall, both the criticism and the defense were made by professionals,” he said.
In his turn, politician and Nagorno-Karabakh Republic’s former FM Arman Melikyan noted that the NA’s qualitative makeup is conditioned on the quality of holding the parliamentary elections.
“We have an agreement in the NA, but the body politic does not have an NA yet. We have an NA where the authorities have the necessary majority,” he stated.
As per Arman Melikyan, the political opposition which demanded justice from the streets, by and large, adapted, entered the Parliament, and agreed to the small number of NA seats.
And reflecting on a possible collaboration between the Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) and the opposition Armenian National Congress (ANC), Manvel Badeyan noted that the PAP has lot more political weight than the ANC.
And in Arman Melikyan’s view, the discussions about such cooperation are illusions.
“These illusions will not become real. The opposition’s activities are crushed because the opposition which was on the street and was expecting a change in power no longer exists,” concluded Melikyan.
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