This is self-deception: MP from Pashinyan's faction on National Assembly's extraordinary session

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YEREVAN, 11 June. /ARKA/. This is self-deception, so commented Vahagn Aleksanyan, a deputy from the ruling Civil Contract party, on the extraordinary parliamentary session scheduled for 27 June, which the opposition wants to use to press for the resignation of PM Pashinyan’s government./pp

They (the opposition) can't even collect 36 signatures under a motion to start impeachment proceedings against the prime minister. And they are trying to mislead their few supporters. Whether the extraordinary session will take place depends on whether there will be a quorum (54 deputies),’ Aleksanyan told Armenia's Public Television./pp

According to him, he does not know whether his faction will participate in the session or not, as the issue has not been discussed yet./pp

Earlier, the Armenian National Assembly Council rejected the parliamentary opposition's proposal to hold an extraordinary session on 11 June./pp

Hayk Konjoryan, head of the parliamentary faction of the ruling Civil Contract party, told journalists that the extraordinary sitting may or may not take place./pp

At a rally on 9 June, Archbishop Galstanyan the leader of the anti-government movement. called for a 96-hour non-stop strike and protests from 10 June. He also called on MPs to hold an extraordinary parliamentary session to demand the resignation of the government./pp

On Monday evening, supporters of the movement set up tents at the intersection of Baghramyan Avenue and Demirchyan Street blocking one of the major roads in the capital.-0-./p