Armenia is not an authoritarian state, what is proved by the question of the member of parliament from Heritage opposition party, Zaruhi Postanjyan, addressed to President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan who spoke at the plenary meeting of PACE in Strasbourg on June 22, according to Hrayr Karapetyan, the chairman of the Armenian standing parliamentary committee on defense, national security and internal affairs.

“In an authoritarian state, an opposition representative would never be a member of PACE delegation,” Karapetyan told a press conference in Yerevan when commenting on Postanjyan’s question about Sargsyan’s voluntary resignation and announcement of extraordinary elections “since authoritarian regimes will be destroyed sooner of later”.

“Postanjyan contradicts herself,” he said.