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    'Renovation' of the National Assembly

    Story from Lragir.am News:
    http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/country22549.html

    Published: 13:07:40 - 09/07/2011

    A great deal of backstage rumors and press reports come on these days
    that Speaker Abrahamyan may replace Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan
    soon. He is said to pack his things to move to the government. The
    Zhoghovurd Newspaper asked the head of staff of the National Assembly
    to comment on these rumors. Gegham Gharibjanyan said, `Mr. Abrahamyan
    gave me an instruction on the repair of the building which will last
    for over a year.'

    Gegham Gharibjanyan's answer doesn't reveal where the speaker will be
    staying for the next year, in another room or in the government, for
    instance, the office of the prime minister. Besides, less than a year
    is left till the parliamentary election, and by that time renovation
    of the office of the new speaker will not be completed. After me `the
    renovation', as the saying is.

    When Hovik Abrahamyan became speaker of the National Assembly, he
    promised to raise the role of this institution. Of course, when he
    said role, he didn't mean the role defined by the Constitution. The
    National Assembly remained the same. Instead, the hall of the meetings
    of parliament was completely reconstructed. However, to raise the role
    of the parliament it is necessary to renovate its content, namely
    replace 99.99 percent of members of parliament, including Hovik
    Abrahamyan. Abrahamyan seems to realize this need, therefore he stated
    once that there can't be parliamentarians who own businesses.

    The problem is that there can't be government officials who run
    businesses, including Hovik Abrahamyan. Of course, if we are
    considering having a normal country.

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