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Newspaper: What will happen if Armenia Constitutional Court reduces ruling party seats in new parliament?

News.am, Armenia

YEREVAN. – Hraparak daily of the Republic of Armenia (RA) writes: One of the demands of the [opposition] "Armenia" bloc [led by second President Robert Kocharyan] at the CC [(Constitutional Court)] is to establish a new order for the distribution of [parliamentary] mandates. The CC, according to the law, has such authority.

If they [the CC] record that the electoral fraud [during the snap parliamentary elections on June 20] has had a considerable impact [on the voting results], a new order of distribution of [parliamentary] mandates is established, and accordingly, they reduce the mandates of the ruling majority and add [them] to [those of] the [parliamentary] opposition.

It should be reminded that the [ruling] CC [(Civil Contract Party)] has received 71 mandates, the "Armenia" bloc—29, the [opposition] "I have honor" [bloc]—7; that is, the CC has 2/3 [of the seats] of the NA [(National Assembly)] and can pass all the initiatives, adopt constitutional laws on its own.

Yesterday, the "Armenia" bloc demanded at the CC to limit the mandates given to the [parliament] majority faction to up to 3/5 of the number of total parliamentary mandates.

And what will happen if the CC does not have 3/5 in the parliament? It cannot adopt the constitutional laws on its own. According to Section 2 of Article 103 of the RA Constitution, the NA Rules of Procedure, Electoral, Judicial Codes, the RA Law on the Constitutional Court, the laws on referendum, [political] parties, the Human Rights Defender are considered constitutional laws.

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