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| 20:17:20 | 26-05-2005 | Politics |

JURIDICAL SYSTEM TO BE LIQUIDATED

Today members of Democracy public organization presented in detail the
changes to the Election Code, which in their opinion are anti-constitutional
and regressive as compared to the acting code and do not secure fair and
free elections

The organization prepared the conclusion of experts regarding the Election
Code and is ready to present it to all the interested parties, including the
OSCE Bureau on Democratic Institutes and Human Rights and the Venice
Commission. The organizations members hope that when compiling the final
conclusion will take into account the opinions on the changes to the
Election Code.

Noting the contradiction between Article 98 of the Constitution and the
changes to be inserted in the Election Code Vardan Poghosyan said, `A judge
cannot be an administrative body – member of the commission and the person
to draw the final conclusion on the decisions made by himself’.

Hrayr Tovmasyan reminded, `There will be 40 election commission and 2
persons, who will appoint members out of judges. It means that 82 judges
will be engaged in the election commissions. The number of judges presently
makes 161, 21 of them are economic judges and do not serve on the common
juridical system. Thus 80% of judges will be engaged in the election
commissions.

It turns out that during the elections the juridical system will be
liquidated. To note, this circumstance inspired chairman of the Helsinki
Committee in Armenia Avetik Ishkhanyan, who considers that such juridical
system should be liquidated anyway.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress