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Armenia’s National Assembly resumed the debates over Artur Davtyan’s candidacy nominated for the position of Armenia’s Prosecutor General. On Tuesday Artur Davtyan presented his program in the first hearing of the autumn session, while today political factions represented in the parliament expressed their positions over the candidate.

Parliamentarian Miqayel Melkumyan from Prosperous Armenia faction delivered a speech and directly applied to Prosecutor General candidate Artur Davtyan to clearly present the plans he promises to implement and that were not addressed or fulfilled by the previous Prosecutor General.

“I would welcome if a new program with new approaches and concept is brought on the agenda, yet if we continue working in the established conditions and within certain restrictions, expectations are low,” Melkumyan stated.

To his words, the sphere of the Prosecutor’s General work is closely linked to the whole range of law enforcement activities, where the first should display and maintain principled stance.

Head of Prosperous Armenia faction Naira Zohrabyan took the floor next and suggested Artur Davtyan should have known well the problems in Armenia’s judicial system, specifically the root causes of the existing corruption and the ways to combat that.

“The matter is not about his professional and personal qualifications, but rather the rules of the game whether he will be allowed to work,” stressed Zohrabyan.

“Another set of relations work, unless we have people placed above the law, where a criminal, even a murderer, may be in freedom, while innocent people carry the responsibility for the crimes committed by others. I do not believe in kind missionaries, unless the rules of the game are changed,” Zohrabyan maintained, adding Prosperous Armenia faction will not participate in the vote.

NA Vise President, the representative of the ruling Republican Party Eduard Sharmazanov, meanwhile, called on MPs to stick to the agenda topic. “We are electing Armenia’s Prosecutor General, not the savior of the nation. We talked about everything except the matter under debate,” Sharmazanov stated, calling on his colleagues to avoid to link every problem in the with the Prosecutor General candidate.