PARLIAMENTARY MAJORITY TURNS DOWN DISCUSSION OF BILL APPROVED BY GOVERNMENT
Noyan Tapan
Oct 22, 2007
YEREVAN, OCTOBER 22, NOYAN TAPAN. The RA National Assembly did not
include two bills proposed by the OYP faction into the agenda of
the October 22 sitting. The parliamentary majority turned down the
discussion of the bills on Making Amendments and Addenda to the Code
of Administrative Offences and to the NA Regulations, which had not
been approved by the respective profile standing committees.
As Hovhannes Margarian, one of the authors of the bill, a member of
the OYP faction, said in his interview to Noyan Tapan correspondent,
usually all bills proposed by the government are included in sittings’
agenda and the bills authored by the opposition are not approved by
the government.
However, this time the situation is exclusive: the parliamentary
majority, which mainly consists of the Republican Party, refused to
discuss the bill, which had been approved by the government, with
the signature of the RPA Chairman, Prime Minister, Serge Sargsian.
In H. Margarian’s words, he means the bills On Making Amendments and
Addenda to the NA Regulations, according to which it is proposed that
deputies asking questions during discussion of bills should be given
a possibility to give an explanation for another two minutes. The
authors of the bill also propose that the issue of standing committees’
quorum should be also reconsidered by increasing the quorum from one
fourth to one third of the staff.