Secretary of the Armenian National Congress Party Aram Manukyan asked Parliament Speaker Hovik Abrahamyan about the reason of installing so big number of surveillance cameras in the rooms and corridors in the parliament.
"If you seek total control over the opposition to find out what parliamentarians speak behind the scenes and what they mull, I'd disappoint you, what we speak in our rooms we speak also in the sitting hall. I think, you should not waste the budgetary funds on cameras," Manukyan said. He recommended the speaker to 'give him the bug' installed to tap him and he will start informing the parliament of his every action.
Hovik Abrahamyan, in turn, blamed Manukyan's team for using 'bugs' yet in 90s, when they were in power. Furthermore, Abrahamyan said, the cameras are installed with the only goal to increase security.