ACCORDING TO SPEAKER OF NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, DECISION OF "HERITAGE" NOT TO PARTICIPATE IN FIRST SITTING OF NEWLY ELECTED PARLIAMENT CONTRADICTS LAW AND CONSTITUTION
Noyan Tapan
Jun 07 2007
YEREVAN, JUNE 7, NOYAN TAPAN. "Zharangutyun" ("Heritage") party
informed the speaker of the RA National Assembly Tigran Torosian
in writing that it will not participate in the first sitting of the
National Assembly of fourth convocation on June 6.
The letter in particular reads: "The first sitting of the NA of
fourth convocation has not yet been held: until now "Heritage" has not
received a notice about this sitting and other details – in the manner
appropriate for a legal state. Moreover, the Constitutional Court is
now examining the issue of ratification of the NA elections, which
must receive its solution by June 10, 2007. Based on these arguments,
"Heritage" informs you about the impossibility of its presence at NA
sittings prior to solution of the above mentioned problems."
According to the RA National Assembly PR Department, on the same
day the RA NA speaker Tigran Torosian had a telephone conversation
with the leader of "Heritage" party Raffi Hovannisian and said that
"these explanations cannot be grounds for not participating in the
work of the session of the NA of fourth convocation."
T. Torosian explained that Mr. Hovannisian’s letter is misaddressed:
the speaker of the NA of third convocation has no relation to
problems of the NA of fourth convocation, and there is no tradition in
Armenia to invite factions to the first session of the newly elected
parliament or to notify them. The Constitution and the RA Law on Rules
of Procedure of the Naional Assembly stipulate when this session shall
take place. It is obvious that the issue of invitation to the first
session of the NA is not conditioned by any circumstance, including
by issues examined by the Constitutional Court.
Therefore, according to T. Torosian, the requirement of Article 34 of
the RA Law on Rules of Procedure of NA is holding the first session of
the newly elected NA within the specified period and the participation
of deputies in it.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
