PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE ARMEN MELIKYAN INTENDS TO APPLY TO CONSTITUTIONAL COURT REGARDING VOTING FROM ABROAD

arminfo
2008-01-22 13:48:00

ArmInfo. Presidential candidate of Armenia Armen Melikyan intends to
apply to the Constitutional Court of Armenia regarding the voting from
abroad, the candidate said at a press conference, Tuesday. To recall,
after the amendments to the Election Code, polling stations will be
opened only in the territory of Armenia.

A. Melikyan said he will apply to the Court within the week. He
believes the restriction infringes the rights of the citizens. ‘I think
that those who actually feed the greatest part of the population from
aboard have a right to participate in the political life of their
country and in its future.

Moreover, I think that I have rather serious electorate in abroad that
is now deprived of the right to support me. Thus, I think, my rights
of the presidential candidate are infringed as well. In addition,
this restriction threatens the voting on the whole’, he said.