Surik Khachatryan's appointment as governor of Syunik region is a slap in the face of the Armenian society, a member of the parliament, Alexandr Arzumanyan, said at today's press-conference.
"This shameful appointment is a slap in the face of the whole society which should determine how to reply at it", - he said and added that in Ukraine people would reply at such an event by another maidan.
Meanwhile, political expert Aleksandr Manasyan said that if he were Surik Khachatryan, he would not agree to occupy the position of the Synuk governor. "But I would not appoint him the governor either", - he said.
To recall, Khachatryan resigned from the post of the Syunik Governor following shootouts in front of his house on June 2 2013 when the former candidate for Goris mayor Avo Budaghyan was killed and his brother Artak Budaghyan, a commander at a military unit in the NKR was wounded. There was another wounded, Nikolay Arustamyan, a relative and bodyguard of Governor Suren Khachartyan. Syunik Governor Suren Khachatryan's son, Tigran Khachatryan, was arrested over the shootouts. Earlier, the governor's bodyguard Zarzand Nikoghosyan was arrested over the case. However, the Court terminated the case and set free the Governor's son and his friend. To calm down the tensions in Syunik, parliamentarian Vahe Hakobyan, the son of Zangezour copper and molybdenum plant's ex-director Maksim Hakobyan, was appointed as Syunik Governor. However, according to ArmInfo's data, Surik Khachatryan, who enjoys the support of the country's leadership, put a spoke in the young governor's wheel. Actually, Vahe Hakobyan was reluctant to send in his resignation.