‘My Step’ Proposes to Strip Naira Zohrabyan of the Chairmanship of the National Assembly's Human Rights Committee

The ‘My Step’ faction of the National Assembly has submitted a draft resolution to terminate the powers of Prosperous Armenia Party MP Naira Zohrabyan as the Chair of the Standing Committee on Human Rights Protection and Public Affairs. The faction justifies the proposal by stating the impossibility of Zohrabyan continuing in that position.

According to the ruling faction's rationale, on December 17, Naira Zohrabyan made a Facebook post that included the following statement: 'I hate you, scum, who brought to power your kind, who is slowly closing the page of our statehood.'

In the second point of the justification, it is noted that on December 22, Zohrabyan wrote on the same page: 'The number one problem in our country is ignorance. After the end of Nikol and Nikolism, if you want, yes, we must forcibly educate that part of society so that they do not go to any elections again and do not bring their mirror image to power. I will not give scum my homeland. Now I will be in Republic Square to save my homeland from Nikol and scum. Scum will no longer decide anything in my country. And if necessary, yes, until we reach a certain educational standard, scum must be deprived of any kind of decision-making and, foremost, the right to vote. And they must be forcibly taken to be educated. This is now a serious national security issue. This is a fight of species—a fight of the people and the scum. Which species will win will determine the kind of state we will have. We will not have a scumocracy. Be assured.'

‘Thus, it becomes clear from the aforementioned comments and public statements of MP Naira Zohrabyan that the MP makes statements that violate the inviolable dignity of humans, recognized by the Constitution as the highest value, containing contempt and insult, as well as directly contradicting the Constitution by classifying people. Furthermore, they condition the realization of citizens' fundamental voting rights, enshrined in the Constitution, based on that classification. This makes it apparent that MP Naira Zohrabyan cannot serve as the chair of a committee whose core activity is the protection of human rights,’ the draft's justification states.