Investigative ad hoc committee fails to ensure quorum due to MPs' engagement in election campaign

The Investigative ad hoc committee set up to study the wiretapping of the conversation between the director of the National Security Service and chief of the Special Investigation Service fails to conduct sessions.

Speaking to reporters today, chairman of the committee Gevorg Kostanyan said the members of the committee do not attend the parliament due to involvement in the election campaign.

“We fail to ensure quorum. Ten out of 12 members of the commission are rating candidates and are getting prepared for elections. I consider their absence objective,” Kostanyan said.

The committee has not been dissolved yet and will continue works until the end of authorities of the current parliament.

“The wiretapping case is the issue of national security, it does not relate to either party or political interests, it is exclusively state issue and I am convinced in the necessity of referring to this issue by the next parliament,” Kostanyan said.