ArmInfo. Our political team believes that the opposition should use all the opportunities provided to it. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated this from m the rostrum of the parliament on January 22, referring to the situation with sabotage by the "My Step" bloc of the creation of a parliamentary investigation commission to study corruption risks in the Yerevan Municipality.
The prime minister said that after collecting the necessary number of signatures, it was decided to create this commission. According to him, yesterday the "My Step" faction of the Council of Elders of Yerevan carried out a legal analysis and came to the conclusion that the Council of Elders should deal with this issue. Pashinyan also emphasized that according to the regulations, if necessary, the Council of Elders has all the powers necessary to create an investigative commission. The Ministry of Justice of Armenia also confirmed that the conclusion of the Council of Elders in the legal plan is fully justified. If we had not fulfilled this requirement of the Council of Elders, we would have violated the principle of the separation of powers, "the prime minister emphasized.
It should be noted that today the "My Step" faction sabotaged the composition of the members of the parliamentary commission of inquiry on the study of agreements on the transfer of vehicles and other property to the Yerevan Municipality, the provision of services by various entities, the transfer by the Yerevan community of real or movable property, including property, and also non-property rights and related building permits. As a result, the commission was never formed.