Referendum not the best variant to solve Amulsar issue: Babken Tunyan

Chairman of the Economic Affairs Standing Committee of the National Assembly, My Step lawmaker Babken Tunyan referred to the referendum offered as a way to solve the Amulsar issue.

“Amulsar issue is one of the core issues. On one hand environmental risks, on the other economic and political and geopolitical from aside. Making decision in this issue supposes extremely difficult responsibility,” he wrote, stressing that to understand the whole responsibility it is enough to know that over a year time was necessary to understand the situation completely and analyze the visible and invisible risks.

“Now the prime minister is ready to make a decision. I think no one will argue that the Prime Minister is the most competent person and due to his post possesses all the information over the issue. I have not a bit of doubt that he has any personal interest in the issue and he has chosen the way which is the most right for our country,” Tunyan wrote.

Referring to the variant of conducting referendum, the lawmaker described it as the easiest way for the authorities which will mean avoiding the responsibility and putting the responsibility on the people.

“I have my own approach over Amuslar based on my own analyses and this approach has not changed during this year and I have talked about it many times. The referendum is not the best variant for me, as free, fair referendum will be conducted but the decision made as a result may not be right. People may sometimes be wrong in some concrete issues due to not being well informed about the issue,” he wrote, adding though that referendum is one of the existing variants.

“In any case, irrespective of the decision the PM will make whether he will deicide or a referendum will be conducted, I share this responsibility with him,” he wrote, adding that id the PM’s decision differed from his own he would have put his mandate and criticized the approach.