Armenian PM no longer trusts anyone, instructs to personally check MPs during meetings

The Armenian MPs have begun to be personally inspected when joining the meetings of the faction from the ruling Civil Contract party with Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.

“Just like in prisons when a personal inspection is carried out to detect drugs and mobile phones. And this causes bewilderment, maybe even outrage within the ‘Civil Contract’. This is not like the attendees are offered to hand over all recording devices before meeting with the prime minister. In reality, the prime minister's bodyguards come in and start checking whether someone has a phone, tablet or smartwatch with which they could have recorded or filmed the meeting. In case they find, they simply take it away [from the MPs],” Caliber.Az informs, citing the Yerevan-based Hraparak newspaper.

It is obvious that Pashinyan no longer trusts anyone,” the newspaper writes.