CLAIMANT PARTY ANNOUNCES CHALLENGE TO JUDGE PRESIDING AT TRIAL ON CASE OF INVALIDATING RESULTS OF VOTING OF CLU CONFERENCE
Noyan Tapan
Dec 26 2006
YEREVAN, DECEMBER 26, NOYAN TAPAN. At the December 26 sitting of first
instance court of Kentron and Nork-Marash communities of Yerevan on
case of recognizing invalid voting results of Constitutional Law Union
(CLU) Party’s last conference, representative of claimant party,
lawyer Gevorg Gyozalian again came up with a petition demanding to
introduce some documents kept at CLU office. The court in its turn,
like at the previous sitting, rejected this petition, in response to
which G.Gyozalian announced challenge to judge Vazgen Lalayan. In
the lawyer’s words, the judge impedes objective examination of the
case. In G.Gyozalian’s words, second part of Article 49 of RA Civil
Procedure determines that "a person involved in the case who has
no possibility to get the necessary proof on his own from a person
involved or not involved in the case who has this proof has the right
to apply to the court with the petition of demanding this proof." In
this case, in the lawyer’s words, the judge contributed to violation of
principle of equal rights of parties. The same day CLU Press Service
spread a statement, according to which this case should be quashed,
as issues relating to party’s inner life cannot be subject of judicial
examination of general competence. "We should state that attempts
to slander CLU and to suspend publication of the Iravunk newspaper
by a number of persons standing close to the authorities giving
rise to laughter and compassion are nothing else but continuation
of authorities’ convulsive efforts to weaken CLU strengthening
day by day in preelection period and to reduce to silence the most
influential media, Iravunk. We would advise the authorities instead
of such fruitless and self-discrediting actions to try to repent
before the people and voluntarily to leave the political sphere,"
the CLU statement read.
