NA MP: Violence, hatred and intolerance encouraged by country`s  political leadership

ArmInfo.  The ruling faction in the National Assembly of  Armenia, the Civil Contract party, rejected the initiative of the parliamentary opposition to create an ethics commission regarding NA MP Andranik Kocharyan. Only 28 MPs voted in favor of the decision, while 47 voted against and one abstained.

As the head of the Civil Contract faction, Hayk Konjoryan, noted in  his speech, the MPs from the ruling party voted opposed the  initiative was it was an attack on the ruling party rather than an  effort to establish an ethics commission. In response, Artsvik  Minasyan, a member of the National Assembly from the opposition  faction "Armenia", noted that today's vote once again confirmed the  fact that the ruling faction in the country refuses to consider the  idea of creating an ethics commission. "This reinforces the  opposition's concerns that violence, hatred and intolerance are  encouraged by the country's top political leadership," the  oppositionist noted.