Expert: Pashinyan and his team reap the benefits of their own work

ArmInfo. The content of the first two weeks of the sittings of the 8th convocation of the  National Assembly clearly demonstrated how Nikol Pashinyan and his  team have been reaping the fruits of their own work over the past  three years. A similar opinion was expressed to ArmInfo by head of  the International Center for Human Development Tevan Poghosyan.

"For three years these people have divided society into white and  black, former and current, red and white, and today they do not like  being called capitulators. Pashinyan personally became the initiator  and, accordingly, responsible for all this, and I do not think that  the label attached to him as a capitulator violates parliamentary  ethics.

The actions of the ruling force in response to the voicing of such  terms addressed to him Poghosyan assesses as unconstructive, since  they start not from the desire to protect the law and legality, but  from the desire to protect their leader. In his opinion, to this end,  as of today, the "Civil Contract" is trying to strengthen its own  positions and, fighting against the use of political terms today, is  working to establish a dictatorship tomorrow.

Poghosyan believes that by their actions the ruling party and  personally Speaker of the Parliament Alen Simonyan put themselves  above the law in the legislative body, which is nonsense. And he  could " get rid of the disagreements " as Simonyan urges, by  resigning, which, in the expert's opinion, would be the best way out  of the situation that had developed within the walls of parliament.

"Of course, in connection with the removal of its MP from the  Parliament Hall, the opposition may demand the formation of an ethics  commission in order to discuss the legality of such actions of the  Speaker.  However, its decision will turn out to be quite  predictable, given the composition of the current parliament.  In any  case, under such conditions, the work of the new parliament cannot be  effective. The main reason for the emergence of such a situation was  the holding of early elections in the context of an internal  political crisis," Poghosyan summed up.

It should be noted that following the results of the first two weeks  of the work of the 8th convocation of the National Assembly of  Armenia, we have to record the absolute unwillingness of the people's  representatives to participate in the discussion of the accumulated  external and internal problems of the country. With very rare  exceptions, parliamentarians use the NA rostrum for mutual  accusations, reproaches, hints and swearing. Moreover, we are talking  about all three parliamentary factions without exception. Moreover,  in a strange way, representatives of the opposition "Hayastan" and "I  Have Honor" blocs shy away from demanding the ruling Civil Contract  party to disclose the current negotiating agenda with Azerbaijan and  Russia, preferring to focus on interpersonal issues.