YEREVAN. – Of course, his act is unacceptable; we have already issued a statement. Satenik Mkrtchyan, a member of the majority My Step faction of the Yerevan Council of Elders, said this in a conversation with reporters today, referring to the Facebook post of their fellow faction member Henrik Hartenyan.

Asked whether Hartenyan should be ousted from the council, she said: “We will find out during the discussions. I think no. I think we still need to go to institutional solutions. I want us to discuss this issue very seriously and understand it within the faction.

We have to go through the discussions’ phase and decide together what we are going to do in connection with this behavior of the faction member."

As reported earlier, Henrik Hartenyan, a member of the majority My Step faction at the Yerevan Council of Elders, posted a picture of Constitutional Court of Armenia president Hrayr Tovmasyan's daughter on his Facebook page and wrote: "This is the FB of H. Tovmasyan's daughter; let me see you, people."

This became a subject of criticism on social media. The aforesaid member of the Council of Elders later deleted his Facebook page.

The majority My Step faction of the Yerevan Council of Elders has convened an urgent session today. The meeting is focusing on the aforesaid incident.

"We strongly condemn any expression of hatred," My Step faction noted in an earlier statement. “We apologize for what happened.