Voicing his ire over the fact that the government today introduced a number of bills to a special session of the parliament that MPs haven’t had a chance to familiarize themselves with, opposition HAK (Armenian National Congress) faction leader Levon Zurabyan chided the regime for seeking to turn the Armenian legislature into rubber-stamping body.

“This is being done by a government whose leader is a person who speaks about raising the role of the National Assembly,” Zurabyan addressed the parliament, adding that such a move was a slap in the face to the legislature.

The MP said that if the bills weren’t withdrawn, the non-coalition parliamentary factions would draft a set of modifications to the National Assembly’s procedural code.

Continuing in the same vein, ARF faction secretary Aghvan Vardanyan called the government’s move unacceptable and that bills already debated by MPs should be included in the legislature’s agenda.

HAK faction secretary Aram Manukyan rose and asked what had prevented the government from introducing the bills earlier to the MPs.

“Wasn’t it possible to send them for us to look over? We are not familiar with around ten bills that you are now introducing. We can’t just adopt bills willy-nilly,” Manukyan declared.

MP Zurabyan asked for a twenty minute recess and suggested that Parliamentary Speaker Galust Sahakyan meet with the non-coalition factions on the matter.