Thursday, September 17 2020 12:53

ArmInfo. A vote on the draft of the opposition factions "Enlightened Armenia" and "Prosperous Armenia" on the expression of no confidence in the Minister of  Education, Science, Culture and Sports Arayik Harutyunyan was held in  the sitting room of the parliament.

 This project was rejected. 25  deputies voted <for>, 84 did <against>. The head of the "Enlightened  Armenia" faction, Edmon Marukyan, asked why the minister himself was  absent from the meeting. To which the speaker of the parliament  Ararat Mirzoyan stated that he had contacted the minister and  considered that Harutyunyan might not be present at the meeting  because of his employment.  After that, Iveta Tonoyan, MP from the  "Prosperous Armenia" faction, press secretary of the head of the PAP  Gagik Tsarukyan, spoke. Tonoyan noted that yesterday during the  session Harutyunyan made a number of incorrect statements to the  faction and behaved extremely uncivilized.

Note that on September 16, during the discussion of the "Enlightened  Armenia> about distrust of the head of the Ministry of Education,  <Prosperous Armenia> stated that it also subscribes to this  requirement.  In his final speech, Harutyunyan allowed himself a  hairpin against the PAP and its leader Gagik Tsarukyan, noting that  the new educational standards will teach the "Kotayk group" to  respect their neighbors and the church, to restrain their hormones,  so that there will be no more sexual crimes in churches. This  statement caused a flurry of discontent from the "Enlightened  Armenia" and shouts from the seats, and at the end of the meeting an  emergency briefing was called. During it, the MP from the PAP Naira  Zohrabyan stated that the minister had crossed the boundaries of  correctness, and that the faction considered it unacceptable to  insult the residents of Kotayk region. "There has never been such  irrelevance to criticism, under any government. This is aggression  against those who express the opposite point of view. No one is  obliged to share his opinion on the so-called reforms, which have  completely failed, "she said, adding that dirty criticism is  unacceptable for an official.

The MP, in particular, said: "Our faction does not express its  confidence in Arayik Harutyunyan. The minister, who, during his  entire tenure in this position, stood out only by discussing issues  of education, science, culture and sports with various transgenders  and by deciding to withdraw the subject "History of the Armenian  Church" from the school curriculum. The Armenian Apostolic Church is  also against this.  We will express our lack of confidence in this  minister.>

In turn, the head of the "My Step" faction, Lilit Makunts, said that  the persons who at one time disseminated disinformation should not  now speak out about correctness.  "It would be better if this faction  drew attention to the behavior of its deputy Gevork Petrosyan, who is  spreading misinformation," Makunts stressed.