ANOTHER INCIDENT OF ARMENIAN LAWMAKERS VOTING FOR ABSENT COLLEAGUES: WATCHDOG

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03.22.2012

According to media reports, the habit of lawmakers voting for their
absent colleagues in parliament continued yesterday, to which Heritage
Party MP Larisa Alaverdyan complained during the parliament meeting
in question.

Head of the Armenian Parliamentarism Center Ruben Torosyan today
filed a claim in this regard with the country’s Special Investigative
Service (SIS), while informing the SIS that the Center has not yet
received a proper response to a claim it submitted earlier on a similar
incident in February, according to a statement issued by the Armenian
Parliamentarism Center.

“We informed them only that the claims were submitted to the National
Assembly speaker, who made some calls on some of them and that’s all.

That is to say, these claims have “fallen asleep” in the parliamentary
speaker’s possession.

“Perhaps the only “good” news we’ve received is that some of those
violators of the law have been included in the Republican Party of
Armenia’s executive body and its pre-election list [of candidates].

That is, the HHK leader’s surroundings has had significant achievements
in quality.

“In these encouraging conditions, why shouldn’t they have repeated
the same crime and that already in their high-ranking posts?

“In any case, we have sent news of this matter to the head of the
European Democratic Party,” reads the statement.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress