TI Applied To Ethics Commission

Law – Friday, 24 May 2013, 17:06

Transparency International Anti-Corruption Center has applied to the
Ethics Commission requesting to study two issues. One refers to the
practice of members of parliament to hire their friends, family
members and relatives for their assistant’s position. Transparency
International refers to an article published in Hetq.am headlined
`Heading for National Assembly with Family or Who Are Assistants to
Members of Parliament?’ Members of parliament can have two assistants.
One is a paid position, the other is a volunteer position. According
to Hetq.am, paid assistants are usually friends, relatives or family
members of the MPs. According to Article 23, Para 1.8, it is forbidden
to a public servant to work together with close relatives or in-laws
(parent, spouse, child, brother, sister, spouse’s parent, child,
brother and sister), if their service is connected with direct
subordination to or supervision over one another (except a member
parliament). The issue is not legal, it is moral, TI states. The
second application requests the Ethics Commission to study the
acceptability and lawfulness of interference of Member of Parliament
Samvel Alexanyan in the electoral process on the day of vote to the
Council of Elders of Yerevan.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress