The Armenian opposition on Friday failed to muster sufficient support for an emergency session of parliament on last month's deadly violence at a now infamous restaurant in Yerevan.
Only 21 of the 131 members of the National Assembly backed the initiative spearheaded by the Armenian National Congress (HAK), short of at least 44 signatures needed to force a parliament debate on the issue.
The Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) effectively declined to throw its weight behind the opposition demand for a parliamentary inquiry into the June 17 incident. Only 7 of its 37 deputies signed up to the demand.
Naira Zohrabian, a senior BHK lawmaker, again claimed that most members of the party's parliamentary faction, the second largest in the assembly, are absent from the country and therefore physically unable to put their signatures.
Armenian News
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