168 Hours: Shushan Petrosyan should give up parliamentary seat

‘168 Hours’ paper writes that member of Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) parliamentary faction Shushan Petrosyan has always had problems within the faction. “She repeatedly complained that other female MPs go on business trips each month, while she is not included in parliamentary delegations. Now Shushan Petrosyan is facing more serious problems: she will have either to vote in the same way as other members of the faction or to give up her parliamentary seat,” the paper says.

“On June 21 Petrosyan boycotted the vote on the bill on accumulative pension system. The faction believes that if so far they could turn a blind eye to free expression of her will, now it is an unaffordable luxury. Thus, if Shushan Petrosyan does not want to go against her convictions, she should give up her parliamentary seat by September,” the paper writes.