Hayaqve demands Corruption Prevention Commission initiate case  against premier for violating official etiquette

ArmInfo. Avetik Chalabyan, coordinator of the "Hayakve" initiative, appealed to the Corruption Prevention Commission of Armenia demanding that it initiate a case against Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan for violating official  etiquette.

In a Facebook post, Chalabyan emphasized that on May 18, during the  election campaign in Yerevan's Arabkir district, the Armenian prime  minister rudely insulted a citizen who approached him, and also  openly called for violence and threatened his political opponents.

"I am enclosing the first and last pages of the statement and will  consistently seek its proper consideration.  If you also feel  offended by Pashinyan's rude and threatening statements, you can  submit a similar appeal to the same Commission," concluded the  coordinator of the "Hayakve" initiative, posting a photo of his  statement.

Artur Osipyan, head of the Artsakh Revolutionary Party, who engaged  in a dispute with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in the  Arabkir district of Yerevan on the afternoon of May 18 during the  prime minister's election campaign, was transferred to a pretrial  detention facility on the night of May 19. He is charged with  hooliganism.

As a reminder, Osipyan and the Armenian prime minister had an  argument in the Arabkir district of Yerevan on May 18. Osipyan  accused Pashinyan of helping Arayik Harutyunyan get elected president  of Artsakh through corruption. Moreover, he noted that it was  Pashinyan who dissolved the OSCE Minsk Group on the Nagorno-Karabakh  conflict, and now the Azerbaijani authorities are promoting an agenda  of settling Azerbaijanis in Armenia. These words infuriated  Pashinyan, who began shouting, "Get out of here, you big guy," and  "Let the Karabakh pseudo-elites get out of here altogether." "You  should have died instead of our sons, Artur Osipyans! You plunderers,  you bastards! You should have died! Why are you alive, you brute, and  even talking about 5,000 dead? Get out, you big guy! You should have  let them pluck your feathers now." Osipyan was then detained and  taken to the Arabkir police station.