The non-power forces, except Heritage, negatively assess opposition MP Nikol Pashinyan's initiative to submit a draft resolution on impeachment of Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan for consideration of the Armenian National Assembly.
Head of the Orinats Yerkir (OY) Faction Heghine Bisharyan has told ArmInfo's correspondent that OY will not join Pashinyan's initiative and will not sign it.
Vahan Babayan, MP from Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) says that the given initiative is not serious at all. He points out that the non-power parliamentary forces (PAP, Armenian National Congress (ANC) and Heritage) have no such a goal.
Deputy Head of Heritage Party Armen Martirosyan is the only representative of the non-power parliamentary forces to give a positive response to Pashinyan's initiative. "Nikol Pashinyan's initiative will be discussed by the Heritage Faction and by the Heritage Board if needed. This is a positive political step and Pashinyan can present it to Heritage. I think we will have no problems in joining the initiative", he says. In the meantime, Martirosyan is skeptical about the destiny of the given document, because even if Pashinyan collects signatures of 44 MPs to include the issue in the Parliament's agenda, the draft resolution will be rejected by the ruling majority.
MP from Armenian National Congress Stepan Demirchyan says that the ANC Faction will by all means discuss Pashinyan's initiative. However, a day before, Lyudmila Sargsyan, another MP from the ANC, said that Pashinyan's initiative is simply senseless, because the ruling party will reject it all the same.
Artsvik Minasyan, MP from ARF Dashnaktsutyun, just says, "No document - no opinion. We can say nothing until he presents the document to us".
Vice Speaker of Armenian Parliament Eduard Sharmazanov is also skeptical about the document. He says that Pashinyan's initiative is doomed to failure, because it is not supported even by the non-power forces.
For his part, Hovhannes Sahakyan, Head of the Parliamentary Commission for State and Legal Affairs, has told ArmInfo that there are neither legal nor political premises for impeachment in Armenia. Consequently, Pashinyan's initiative is an end in itself. "At the moment the Armenian oppositionists are competing in scandalous behavior", Sahakyan says and adds that the opposition can implement its proposals by constructivism rather than radicalism.
To note, opposition MP Nikol Pashinyan has prepared a draft resolution "On Impeachment of Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan". He is going to submit the document for consideration of Parliament on November 28. To include the document in the Parliament's agenda, Pashinyan is to collect signatures of 44 MPs.