27 հունվար, 2020 22:42
Feud Between Armenian Prime Minister and Head of Constitutional Court Escalates
During a January 25 press conference in the city of Kapan, the capital of Armenia’s Syunik Province, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said that Hrayr Tovmasyan, President of the country’s Constitutional Court, had offered to “provide services” for him and “collude” with him. Pashinyan has yet to specify the matters on which Tovmasyan offered to collude, and provided evidence to back up his allegations. During the same press conference, Pashinyan stated that, according to Armenia’s Constitution, the President of the Constitutional Court is to be elected from among the Court’s members by a vote among the members themselves, whereas Tovmasyan was “elected by the National Assembly...as a result of official forgery.”
