ArmInfo. And about. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan assessed the failure of the National Assembly of the process on amending the Electoral Code of the country.
Thus, Pashinyan assured Facebook on the air that the proposed amendments to the EC were aimed at making it more democratic and understandable, and facilitate the voting process for citizens. "This vote has once again demonstrated the inevitability of early parliamentary elections and the fact that without parliamentary elections we cannot take a single step. This vote showed a real balance of things, namely that the parliamentary majority and their supporters are doing everything to implement the sabotage policy ", - considers. heads of government.
According to him, over the past 20 days, this has been demonstrated several times. Pashinyan is convinced that in this way the parliamentary majority is hoping for the early elections to make its revenge tool. "In fact, even if the extraordinary parliamentary elections will be held according to the current IK, this will not change anything, as the victory of the people is inevitable, and no one can take away the victory of the people. There will be no return to the past," he said. The prime minister, in this context, urged the citizens of the country to really prepare for the upcoming extraordinary elections, and bring the revolution to its logical conclusion.
According to him, regardless of which Election Code will hold elections, there will be no revenge, and no return to the past either. "Armenia will continue to fight against corruption, lawlessness in the name of a new national unity. The revolution will continue, in December there will be early parliamentary elections, where people will inevitably win. And today's voting has once again demonstrated that this government has an atmosphere of sabotage, which they are now trying to bring to the end. However, this will not happen, because the revolution that has been launched will be brought to the end, "concluded Pashinyan.
Note that today at an extraordinary meeting of the Parliament by 56 votes "for" and 3 against. The draft law on making changes and amendments to the Electoral Code of Armenia was rejected. Meanwhile, this document, as a constitutional law, was to be adopted by 3/5 of the votes of deputies. Even the fact that the head of the Yelk faction Lena Nazaryan, right before the vote, asked for a 20 minute break, did not save the situation, so that the absent deputies could arrive and take part in the voting. According to the law, the bill will be returned to the government for revision.