YEREVAN. – Armenia’s opposition Heritage Party National Assembly (NA) Faction was not included in the new NA delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).

The respective decision was made during Wednesday’s NA voting chaired by NA Speaker Hovik Abrahamyan.

At the parliamentary session, Heritage’s NA Faction leader Zaruhi Postanjyan—who was also a member of the NA delegation to the PACE—stated that Abrahamyan is doing everything so that the Armenian delegation to the PACE does not raise undesirable issues.

“Mr. Abrahamyan, I would like to inform [you] that steps will be taken in connection with this authoritarian decision. Difficult days await you, [and] your fellow party members, too,” Postanjyan stated.     

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?”     

Posing such question had caused great controversy in Armenia.