Altercation between Zaruhi Postanjyan and Samvel Farmanyan
During today’s parliament sitting, Armenia lawmaker Nikol Pashinyan asked Parliament Speaker Galust Sahakyan about the report of a gas commission which was to have been submitted at the previous four-day sitting. Mr Sahakyan said the conclusion was ready and will be distributed to lawmakers in the coming four days. Minutes later, a quarrel broke out between Heritage faction lawmaker Zaruhi Postanjyan and Republican lawmaker Samvel Farmanyan, which was accompanied with insults. Postanjyan said ‘the young man sitting on the right [Samvel Farmanyan] who had managed to change several parties, need not give her advice.’ In his turn, Farmanyan said, ‘Postanjyan looks much better on TV as a housewife than in the National Assembly. “I have observed that she is professionally incompetent,” he said. This finally angered Vice-Speaker of the National Assembly Eduard Shramazanov who turned off their microphones and said, “You are not at a market.” Then the NA proceeded to discuss the 1915 Genocide of Armenians, Greeks, and Assyrians in the Ottoman Empire. The discussion is attended by representatives of Greek and Assyrian communities in Armenia.
