ANAHIT SARGSYAN: RA CC DELIBERATELY DELAYS NIKOL PASHINYAN’S CLAIM EXAMINATION
PanARMENIAN.Net
29.01.2010 16:10 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ "Appointing the day of lawsuit of editor-in-chief
of Haykakan Zhamanak Nikol Pashinyan on March 5, Constitutional
Court of Armenia broke the law. The hearing will appeal against the
results of the elections for the 10th electoral district of Yerevan,"
Anahit Sargsyan told a news conference in Yerevan, Head of Center of
Armenian parliamentary Public Organization.
According to her, by law, the RA Constitutional Court had to consider
the claim within a month, but in this case the examination of the
case was prolonged to 43 days "because of being overloaded".
That is why we studied the schedule and the RA Constitutional Court
concluded that the court is not actually loaded, but simply delaying
the examination," she said.
Answering a PanARMENIAN.Net question, what is the reason of delaying
the lawsuit, Anahit Sargsyan said that, probably, the Constitutional
Court waits for a final verdict the Court of Cassation, in order not
to consider his claim at all and justifying this by saying that Nichol
Pashinyan is convicted and his claim is not subject to review.
Haykakan Zhamanak Editor-in-Chief Nikol Pashinyan’s claim on declaring
elections in the 10th constituency invalid will be considered by
Armenia’s Constitutional Court (RA CC) on March 5, RA CC Spokesman
Hovhannes Papikyan told PanARMENIAN.Net.
On January 21, Pashinyan’s authorized representative submitted to
Constructional Court documents on appealing the election results.
According to RA Central Election Commission (CEC), winner in January
10 parliamentary elections in Yerevan’s 10th constituency was Ara
Simonyan who garnered 7622 votes.
The other candidates – Davit Hakobyan (leader of Marxist Party)
and Editor-in-Chief of opposition-run newspaper Haykakan Zhamanak
Nikol Pashinyan (currently under arrest) received 299 and 5023 votes
respectively.
The first instance court of Kentron and Nork Marash districts has
found Pashinyan guilty of crimes prescribed by Article 225.1 of RA
Criminal Code (organization of disorders) and sentenced him to 7
years in prison.