Samvel Alexanyan is a great humanist - Republican lawmaker (video)
Republican lawmakers know whom opposition MP Nikol Pashinyan meant when he announced in the National Assembly on Tuesday that the traces of the murder of two Armenians in Moscow take to the Armenian parliament. Pashinyan’s words were apparently addressed to Samvel Alexanyan, a lawmaker from the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK); the murdered Armenians used to work for Alexanyan. Hamlet Harutyunyan, another lawmaker from the same party, says he does not expect Alexanyan to have ordered such a thing. “… because he[Alexanyan] is a great humanist,” says Harutyunyan. That same humanist once had problems with Armen Israelyan, one of the killed Armenians. The latter blamed the businessman for keeping him hostage in his factory. “If he [Alexanyan] had kidnapped him [Israelyan], he could have killed him. Why didn’t he do it?” says Hamlet Harutyunyan. Mr. Harutyunyan does not even pay attention to the fact that Alexanyan’s name is often linked to different criminal stories. “Do brawls matter here? Armenian men are always involved in brawls,” he adds. Republican Vahran Baghdasaryan warns Pashinyan that he will have to answer for the accusations he levels against Alexanyan. Baghdasaryan does not expect such a thing from Alexanyan either. “They take every opportunity to settle political vengeance against their colleagues,” says the head of the HHK faction. Vahran Baghdasaryan does not exclude that if things continue in the same way, the traces of assassination of Lenin and Kennedy will also take to the Armenian parliament. “I think Samvel Alexanyan knows how to respond to Pashinyan's accusations – with humour and philosophy.” Edward Sharmazanov will wait for the answer of law enforcement agencies. He does not feel bad that the name of his partymate is linked to the murder of two Armenians. “If you follow debates between Trump and Clinton you will see that even in the most democratic country of the world the two presidential candidates blame each other for different things,” says the Vice-Speaker of the Armenian National Assembly. At the same time, Sharmazanov reminds Pashinyan of the presumption of innocence that is applied in democratic countries.
