NO SITTING WILL TAKE PLACE IN PARLIAMENT TOMORROW

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Parliament sitting took place. There were 21 issues entered on the agenda. Majority of them was for voting and 20 international agreements to ratify. 88 MPs were registered in the beginning of the sitting, and then 5-7 remained as usual.

Parliament Vice-Speaker Tigran Torosyan said at the conversation with us that there will be no sitting on Wednesday since the agenda will be concluded. But the agenda for this week has been concluded today.

At 5:30 PM Parliament Speaker Arthur Baghdasaryan held voting of the discussed issues. All of them were passed, except the one – bill on “Application of Cash Registers”, which was introduced at the 2nd stage. 59 MPs voted for and the bill wasn’t passed because of quorum lack.

Tigran Torosyan doesn’t think that Parliament works badly and the rapid discussions influence upon the quality of laws. He says issues pass the stages of inner discussions in commissions and parties. “When Opposition returns to Parliament, there will be some progress to full sittings again. That’s the logic”, Torosyan says.

The amendment suggested to the “Regulation-Law” saying the sittings must be held once in 3 weeks is intelligible in the conditions of Opposition boycott. As to the suggestion of the amendment over boycott, it demands that MPs or parties declared of a political boycott in the beginning of each session announce about it.

We asked if it was possible that law has a retroactive effect after the amendments are passed and MPs in Opposition are unseated. Mr. Torosyan said it was theoretically possible that the law had a retroactive effect but he didn’t think that it will be applied in that case to unseat MPs in Opposition.