YEREVAN. – As per Armenia’s opposition People’s Party Chairman Tigran Karapetyan, the ruling Republican Party (RPA) had guided opposition Heritage Party MP Zaruhi Postanjyan in posing President Serzh Sargsyan the infamous question at the PACE session.    

At a press conference on Wednesday, Karapetyan stated that the RPA was behind this incident, and to show the presence of democracy in Armenia.  

The People’s Party leader considers Postanjyan’s question to be concocted because the RPA MP had yielded to the opposition MP the right to ask a question. Karapetyan has no doubts that, before doing this, the RPA MP had received such permission from the head of the Armenian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).    

He also noted that, after the return of the delegation, the Prosecutor General of Armenia should have raised this matter at the National Assembly and demanded the submission of facts. 

“If there were no facts, [Postanjyan] either should have been stripped of [her parliamentary] immunity, or taken to a mental institution,” Tigran Karapetyan added.  

To note, during the question and answer session at the PACE plenary session in Strasbourg, France, on October 2, Zaruhi Postanjyan had asked Armenia’s President Serzh Sargsyan the following question:

“You have appeared here [in the PACE session] not by the will of the people, but [rather] as a consequence of organized crime, the theft of the Armenian people’s vote. Therefore you cannot de jure represent the will and right of the Armenian people. [So,] I’ll give you another question. Have you been to a casino in Europe and lost 70 million euros there? And who paid that amount in your stead.”

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