Today, October 1st, leader of the “Heritage” party, Raffi Hovhannisyan, had a meeting with journalists and talked about Oskanian’s scandal.
“I think that Oskanian must not put away his MP mandate. If he has done something wrong he must correct his mistake. As you know today RA General Prosecutor Aghvan Hovsepyan, urged National assembly to agree with Oskanian’s withdraw of his mandate. I want to stress once again that this mustn’t be accepted. There is not a person who hasn’t made mistakes. They only condemn the opposition. What about the authorities? Who must be responsible for the corruption, for the money (millions of dollars) that was given to people as a bribe for voting? Who will be responsible for all these? I’m sure that this action is a political issue. We must think about our country, about the problems we face, Safarov’s case, Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, but what do we do instead? We are just fighting against ourselves. I do agree that if Oskanyan was wrong he must correct it, but he shouldn’t put away his mandate and he shouldn’t become a victim of the pre-electoral compaign.”