Opposition MP comments on latest developments involving dominant  faction

ArmInfo. It is quite  symbolic that the dominant Civil Contract faction in Armenia is  discrediting itself by throwing out of its ranks people who just a  few months ago were engaged in the most outrageous propaganda of the  actions of the ruling force. This was written on his Facebook page by  Tigran Abrahamyan, a member of the National Assembly of the Republic  of Armenia from the opposition With Honor faction. 

According to him, we are talking about the very people who justified  capitulation and defeatism - from the transfer of Artsakh to  Azerbaijan to the Azerbaijani occupation of various parts of Armenia.  "These are the same people who defended the criminal inaction of the  authorities in the most vile way. They are no longer needed because  they were used and thrown out. And from a human perspective, for RA  Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, today's situation is nothing, these  are just numbers that have zero value," the deputy noted. He added  that what happened to the above-mentioned members of the ruling party  in Armenia will affect others at another stage.

The head of the ruling Civil Contract faction in the country, Hayk  Konjoryan, announced the exclusion of MP Hakob Aslanyan from the  faction. "The faction made a unanimous decision to exclude Hakob  Aslanyan due to a serious disciplinary violation, as well as due to  behavior that is completely incompatible with the values and  political course of the Civil Contract party," Konjoryan said in a  statement.

A day earlier, Hakob Aslanyan announced that he was suspending his  participation in the faction for a month. The basis for this was the  investigation into his former colleague Hovik Agazaryan. That same  evening, Aslanyan changed his mind, making a statement in which he  called his decision to freeze his participation in the faction a  mistake. However, Armenian media drew attention to the fact that the  text of the statement was sent to the disgraced MP by High-Tech  Industry Minister Mkhitar Hayrapetyan.

Aslanyan decided not to comment on the issue of his expulsion from  the faction.