ArmInfo.Armenian Parliament Speaker Galust Sahakyan has refused to put into circulation the draft Statement On the People's Right to Revolt by Zaruhi Postanjan, the head of the Heritage Party Faction in the Parliament. The draft document looks to protect the Sasna Tsrer group that seized a police compound in Yerevan in July. The group members are under arrest currently.
Galust Sahakyan qualified the document as "slander and speculation." In repose, MP Nikol Pashinyan said the parliament speaker has no right to refuse introducing any initiative of the lawmakers at his convenience ignoring the Constitution and the legislation.
In response, the speaker argued saying he is "the only one to know the Constitution and the legislation of Armenia."
The draft Statement on the People's Right to Revolt among others says the power in Armenia has been usurped for more than 2 decades and the people has a right to overthrow it by revolting. In this light, the initiator of the draft Statement Zaruhi Postanjyan offers justifying the actions of Sasna Tsrer group as a legal attempt to return power to the people.