``Yelk``: The country needs new elections that would reflect the will  of the people

ArmInfo.The Republican Party of Armenia will vote against the package of amendments in the Electoral Code. On October 29, the MP of the National Assembly of  Armenia from the RPA faction Armen Ashotyan stated from the rostrum  of the National Assembly .

According to him, it is impossible to carry out cardinal reforms of  the Electoral Code 42 days before the elections. Against this  development, the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe also  spoke out.  Ashotyan does not doubt the negative reaction from the  OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights. Moreover,  according to him, there is information that the terms of the  forthcoming early parliamentary elections have already been  determined - December 9, and the process of inviting observers is  already under way through external communication channels.

"We have all become your hostages," the MP addressed to Acting Prime  Minister Nikol Pashinyan, adding that there is an active pressure on  MPs, including the RPA, in order for the latter to vote in favor of  the documents submitted. "Vice-Premier Ararat Mirzoyan stated that he  called many MPs, why didn't he call me?" Armen Ashotyan asked, adding  that what is happening cannot be called democracy and political  consensus.

In response, MP of the ''Yelk'' faction Alen Simonyan reminded  Ashotyan of the actions of the Republican Party for the preservation  of Serzh Sargsyan as head of state. "You even went to change the  Basic Law to leave Serzh Sargsyan and continue the policy of  Azerbaijanisation of Armenia," said Alen Simonyan, adding that on  October 2, when the National Assembly of Armenia secretly adopted a  scandalous amendment to the legislation, aimed at eliminating the  possibility of early dissolution of parliament an attempt was made to  counterrevolution. "This is the National Assembly, not the office of  the RPA," the MP stressed, stressing that the people had already made  a decision. "I understand the attempt of the" last of the Mohicans  "to change the situation, but these are futile efforts," Alen  Simonyan said, adding that the country needs new parliamentary  elections that would reflect the will of the people.