HEARINGS ON CLAIM OF FOUR OPPOSITIONAL PARTIES, DISPUTING RESULTS OF MAY 12 PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION, HAVE STARTED IN RA CONSTITUTIONAL COURT
ArmInfo
2007-06-01 16:22:00
Hearings on the claim of four oppositional parties, the "New Times",
"Republic", "Orinats Yerkir" and "Impeachment" bloc, which dispute
the results of May 12 parliamentary election, have started in RA
Constitutional Court.
As Head of CC Gagik Haroutyunyan said, the joint claim is unprecedented
by its scale and exceeds 4,000 pages. The defendant’s party,
represented by Justice Minister David Haroutyunyan, deputy Head of
Police Ararat Makhtesyan, Head of CEC Garegin Azaryan, CEC lawyer
Nune Hovhannissyan, is also unprecedentedly representative. There
were so many people wishing to participate at the session that the
staff of CC even prepared special tickets with places indicated. In
the beginning of the session, the lawyer of CEC N. Hovhannissyan
presented a petition to dismiss the claim since representatives of
the "Impeachment" bloc, editor of the "Haikakan Zhamanak" newspaper
N. Pashinyan and a journalist of the same newspaper cannot represent
the bloc as they have no juridical education. The Head of CC responded
that they represent not themselves but a political force. However, N.
Hovhannissyan insisted on consideration of the petition, in view of
which the session was interrupted not for long. After a short break,
the CC dismissed the petition and the hearings have started.
To note, security measures have been intensified in CC building and
around it.