ArmInfo. The clarification of relations in parliament with the help of fists is unacceptable. Vice Speaker of the National Assembly Eduard Sharmazanov said this in a conversation with ArmInfo correspondent, referring to the fight between the head of the Yelk bloc faction Nikol Pashinyan and the deputies from the Republican Party of Armenia Artashes Geghamen.
At the same time, he noted that the participants of the fight themselves very inconsistently comment on the incident. "So, Geghamyan claims that he did not touch Pashinyan, and Pashinyan says the opposite: as vice speaker of the parliament, I call on deputies to behave correctly and in the hall of meetings, and keep parliamentary ethics," Sharmazanov said. However, he noted, this does not always work, quarrels occur and both sides are guilty, as this is a mutual process.
This morning in the Armenian parliament there was another fight - this time the Republican Party Deputy, the 70-year-old Artashes Gehamyan and the head of the opposition bloc faction "Yelk" Nikol Pashinyan met in hand-to-hand. The fight happened in the foyer of the National Assembly, it is noteworthy that the pensioner Artashes Geghamyan became its initiator. And it all began with the fact that in his speech on the agreement between Armenia and Russia on the procedure for monitoring the availability and targeted use of military products supplied under the Treaty between the two countries on the development of military- technical cooperation, Pashinyan appealed to Geghamyan. Pashinyan, in particular, sharply criticized this agreement and Geghamian, zealously defending this document. In his speech, Pashinyan called Geghamyan an adherent of communism and called on him to speak exclusively on the themes of Marxism-Leninism, and not on international agreements. Insulted to the depths of his soul by his sarcastic speech, Geghamyan decided to find out the relationship with Pashinyan in the foyer of the National Assembly and rushed at him with his fists, demanding that he no longer mention his name in vain, that is, in his speeches. After the incident on his Facebook page, Pashinyan wrote: "Geghamyan pounced on me with his fists, I successfully struck him off, I even managed to clean my shoes on him." And the deputy from the block "Elk" Gevorg Gorgisyan after a brawl from the rostrum of the parliament called on the Republican Party to pacify its deputies. "There was such a situation that the RPA should give out some straitjackets to some of its deputies instead of the mandate," he said. Meanwhile, Geghamyan assured himself that he did not touch Pashinyan, and the fact that he had a reddened face was explained by the deputy with a sense of shame experienced by the head of the Yelk for improper behavior.