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    Emil Lazarian
  • 4 years ago
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Government-backed candidate for high court justice opts out

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 11:59, 17 August, 2020

YEREVAN, AUGUST 17, ARMENPRESS. A government-backed candidate for Constitutional Court judge has withdrawn his candidacy.

Vahram Avetisyan, the Head of the Chair of Civil Law at the Yerevan State University, who was named by the government in July as a candidate for a vacant seat of Constitutional Court judge, said in a statement he finds it unrealistic to get 80 votes in parliament and he considers participating in the future process of the election to be “inexpedient”.

He said he has formally submitted the withdrawal request to Speaker of Parliament Ararat Mirzoyan.

“At the same time I thank the Government for nominating my candidacy for Constitutional Court judge, and I wish success to the judiciary reforms in Armenia for the benefit of our citizens and our country,” Avetisyan said in a statement.

Editing and Translating by Stepan Kocharyan

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS