"My step": Everyone is equal before the law in the Republic of  Armenia regardless of their position

ArmInfo. The statement of the Prosperous Armenia faction representatives about the authorities' attempts to silence the opposition does not correspond to reality.  This was announced on June 17 from the rostrum of the National  Assembly by the head of the ruling My Step faction Lilit Makunts.

According to her, just as the majority cannot silence the opposition  with their actions and statements, the same way the opposition cannot  do this against the majority. According to the head of the faction,  the statement of the leader of the Prosperous Armenia party Gagik  Tsarukyan on the need for a 100% change of government, made by him on  June 5, differs from the previous statements on two points. The first  is the accusation of the alleged inability of the authorities to  defeat the coronavirus. And this statement was made at the very time  when the Prime Minister and his family members were infected. The  second difference relates to the fact that the Prosperous Armenia  party previously spoke of the need to replace 97% of the Cabinet  members, but now it is already a question of 100%. Thus, as Makunts  noted, the previous statements by representatives of the opposition  are not much different from the current ones.  The day before, in the  process of discussing the petitions of the Prosecutor General, the My  Step faction refrained from speaking out, trying to understand and  evaluate the ongoing legal processes, and speak out on these  processes by secret ballot.

Lilit Makunts also noted that the boycott of the parliament's work is  the right of the opposition, as well as the right to appeal to  international bodies. At the same time, you must be honest and  transparent in your statements and actions. "Yes, freedom of speech,  the development of democracy and the polarity of opinions are the  most important achievements of the Republic of Armenia. This is  evidenced by the results of both the parliamentary elections and the  elections to local self-government bodies, some of which were won by  opposition representatives.  Meanwhile, on many platforms the  opposition is trying to give political shade to the ongoing  processes, thereby exerting pressure on the law enforcement system.  Without violating the presumption of innocence, we reiterate that in  the Republic of Armenia everyone is equal before the law, regardless  of their position and post, "the head of the faction stated.