They’ve been following me for 7 years with street people and garbage cats: Alen Simonian

“No political force could imagine a better gift than our opposition. They neither talk, propose anything, make speeches, nor say anything, but if they come to say something and then skedaddle out of the hall, they are champions—champions!” said the President of the National Assembly, Alen Simonian, during an extraordinary speech at the National Assembly during the time for announcements.

“Garnik Danielyan comes and says, ‘You are insulting, you are spitting.’ Brother, what are you talking about when your master sport is killing people, destroying, deporting, holding the leader of your faction by the neck? For seven years, they have been provoking us, insulting us, following me—be it journalists, street people, or trash cats brought from Artsakh, or worthless individuals who received money from different places. Yes, you found something! Somewhere, someone said, ‘I will cut your ears off,’ and somewhere else, one who ran away from serving in the army, lives in Armenia, someone spat on him. Wow, and we are responsible for that, we take responsibility.

Now they are here pretending to be saints. That Mamijanyan Hayk. It’s good that they sometimes come to make us know that there is such a faction here. He talks about the Prime Minister's way of speaking, let him talk about his boss who threw shoes and broke glass. There’s a person who speaks that way, and there’s another who always wants to resemble his adviser; they don’t understand that everyone else hopes that no one resembles their adviser. He knows that he is a politician too. You are a gift— a gift,” he declared. For more details—see the video.