No discord in opposition Yelk faction, assures MP

Edmon Marukyan, the opposition lawmaker from the Yelk faction representing Bright Armenia party, assures that there is no discord in their faction.

Marukyan told reporters during parliamentary press briefings that an attempt is being made from the very first day of the faction’s creation to find some kind of disagreements within the faction. “I meet Pashinyan every other day, we hug each other upon greeting, if we don’t have an issue with each other I think neither should you. And during the movement we have kept in a dignified manner what we had agreed upon. As to what we have agreed, we know it,” he said.

Speaking on his earlier decision on not joining Pashinyan’s movement in the early stages, Marukyan said that everyone was guided by their own ideas. “In addition, I think it is wrong to present it in a way as if we had left someone alone. We had agreements which we maintained. First of all, the risk of use of violence, if it were to happen we had to stand next to them. There was violence, we were next to them. As a continuation, we visited all detainees and arrested, serious work was done with international structures from the very beginning when our colleagues were arrested. Pashinyan knew at what moment we will be next to him”, he said.

Marukyan said initially they too didn’t believe in the success of the movement. He said they knew each step of Pashinyan, but they didn’t know what the government would do.