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Deputies of ruling party beat opposition MP in Armenia

25 August 2021 18:10 (UTC +04:00)

In the sitting room of the Armenian parliament, deputies from the ruling Civil Contract party kicked and punched a member of the opposition Armenia bloc Vahe Hakobyan, APA reports.

The situation became even more tense, the rest of the deputies also began to hit each other. The staff of the State Security Service entered the hall. In the sitting room of the Armenian parliament, deputies from the ruling Civil Contract party kicked and punched a member of the opposition Armenia bloc Vahe Hakobyan.

The National Assembly (NA) of Armenia has resumed its session Wednesday after a long recess.

Today’s parliamentary debates on the program of the new government were interrupted due to a scuffle between the pro-government and opposition MPs.

Note that the situation in the NA had sharply escalated Wednesday during the speech of ruling "Civil Contract" Faction MP Hayk Sargsyan. In his remarks, Sargsyan stated that the defense ministers during whose tenure people were exempt from military service either by bribery or a telephone "call" were traitors to the homeland. Then a fight broke out and the opposition and the pro-government lawmakers threw water bottles at each other.