The journalistic organizations issued a joint statement, demanding the CP to urgently initiate the process of forming a parliamentary ethics committee, to make the incident between Alen Simonyan and Mediahub.am journalist Vahe Makaryan a subject of discussion, and to publicly evaluate Alen Simonyan's behavior. is.
"On November 4, the editorial office of the news website "Mediahub.am" received a letter from the head of the staff of the National Assembly about the termination of the accreditation of the media reporter Vahe Makaryan in the parliament.
The reason is the scandalous clash between NA Speaker Alen Simonyan and Vahe Makaryan on October 31, which was covered in a number of mass media.
It is also noteworthy that after such conflicts, as a rule, only journalists are held accountable, being deprived of accreditation in the National Assembly. And for parliamentarians who show obscenity, aggressiveness and grossly violate parliamentary ethics, such incidents remain without consequences.
It happened this time as well.
"Strictly condemning what happened, we demand: - from the NA staff to immediately restore the accreditation of journalist Vahe Makaryan in the parliament, - from the NA "Civil Contract" faction to urgently initiate the process of forming a parliamentary ethics committee, make the above-mentioned incident a subject of discussion and publicly evaluate Alen Simonyan's behavior." .
