YEREVAN. – Armenia is getting prepared for the most free and transparent elections during the last 20 years and the state has all the pre-requisites for it, ruling Republican Party MP Hovhannes Sahakyan told Armenian News-NEWS.am correspondent.

According to him, the authorities will ensure separating business from parliament. Measures are taken in this direction.

“We currently have MPs who say willingly that they are not going to stand for the upcoming elections, as they do not see themselves in legislature,” MP said.

However, the process should be gradual as hasted ones always fail.

In response to the question why there are MP oligarchs and why they should not be anymore, Sahakyan said that according to the law, MPs should no run business.

“I believe that none of our MPs run business. There are MPs who have property purchased before. Currently those businesses are run by trusted persons. I do not consider them businessmen as they should run it personally. They may be just rich people,” MP said. “We should not forget that the Parliament is a place to deal with politics. They should express their political ambitions, opinions and solve political issues in the parliament. We have approached to a certain level, where each one should decide on him.”