YEREVAN. – An MP may have a property, but should not run a business, head of ARF Dashnaktsutyun parliament group Vahan Hovhannisyan told Armenian News-NEWS.am correspondent.

“When a list was available including more than 70 MP-businessmen, anything which was possible to write was written. ARFD MP Arthur Aghabekyan was claimed to have Aqua Park, which he built in one of the villages of Nagorno-Karabakh, and he was called an MP-businessman,” Hovhannisyan said.

To note, off parliamentary opposition Armenian National Congress comprised the list.

According to Hovhannisyan, the MP should not be devoid of the right to have a property.

“It is unreasonable to think that MPs live in the street or have never run a business. However, they must register every property,” the MP said.

The MP said that he and another ARFD MP Hrayr Karapetyan offered to legalize mechanisms of legislative lobbying the interests of businessmen and give them adequate transparency. However, the bill is yet not passed.