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A RESIGNATION IS GETTING MATURED
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[09:27 pm] 02 September, 2008
Today RA First President Levon Ter-Petrosian called a conference to
declare three documents, which ground that RA authorities "won" in
elections on February 19 by complete delinquency. Levon Ter-Petrosian
proclaimed the decision of Chairman of Court General Jurisdiction
of Kentron and Nork-Marash districts Mr. Zhora Vardanian's made on
mid February against Aleksandr Arzumanian. It's said in the decision
that General-Major of RA National Security Service (NSS) Z. Nanian's
petition was satisfied and he got permission to examine Aleksandr
Arzumanian on the phone and hear all his phone talks. It's a solid
ground for Levon Ter-Petrosian to say, "It means the authorities
entirely controlled all the events of our staff, the alarm calls
received from districts, all the information provided to the empowered
staff members, observers and journalists. As well as this, state
embodies supervised all the instructions related to the appealing
process.
Therefore it's a case of gross violation of Constitution and Election
Code, which could cause national riots and governmental crisis in any
normal country just like "Watergate" scandal which led to Nickson's
resignation."
Mr. Ter-Petrosian detailed, "The only assumption as a basis of applied
measures against Arzumanian is that he may have been implementing
activities which may cause RA internal political instability, civil
uprising which could be a basis for realizing power takeover in RA
in an anticonstitutional way."
Mr. Ter-Petrosian mentioned that this basis completely contradicts
another official document, which is Mr. Marukian's decision. He is a
senior investigator of NSS Investigation department. On February 24 he
took criminal proceedings against the Pan-National Movement. According
to that decision content the Opposition "made an attempt of state
power takeover of RA in an anticonstitutional and violent way" only
after it was informed that Levon Ter-Petrosian had lost the elections
according to the preliminary data and got 21.5% of votes.
On February 19 it was not clear who would win. Therefore we are
puzzled why Mr. Arzumanian should have attempted to realize "power
takeover in an anticonstitutional way" on that day. It's harder to
imagine more miserable logic or awareness of Law.
Mr. Ter-Petrosian has serious basis to insist that the Judge Zhora
Vardanian made such a decision on February 19 not only against
Arzumanian, but also against many members of the Pan-National
Movement. "That is to speak about the total illegal supervision of
the Opposition pre-election campaign," said Mr. Ter-Petrosyan.
A1+
[09:27 pm] 02 September, 2008
Today RA First President Levon Ter-Petrosian called a conference to
declare three documents, which ground that RA authorities "won" in
elections on February 19 by complete delinquency. Levon Ter-Petrosian
proclaimed the decision of Chairman of Court General Jurisdiction
of Kentron and Nork-Marash districts Mr. Zhora Vardanian's made on
mid February against Aleksandr Arzumanian. It's said in the decision
that General-Major of RA National Security Service (NSS) Z. Nanian's
petition was satisfied and he got permission to examine Aleksandr
Arzumanian on the phone and hear all his phone talks. It's a solid
ground for Levon Ter-Petrosian to say, "It means the authorities
entirely controlled all the events of our staff, the alarm calls
received from districts, all the information provided to the empowered
staff members, observers and journalists. As well as this, state
embodies supervised all the instructions related to the appealing
process.
Therefore it's a case of gross violation of Constitution and Election
Code, which could cause national riots and governmental crisis in any
normal country just like "Watergate" scandal which led to Nickson's
resignation."
Mr. Ter-Petrosian detailed, "The only assumption as a basis of applied
measures against Arzumanian is that he may have been implementing
activities which may cause RA internal political instability, civil
uprising which could be a basis for realizing power takeover in RA
in an anticonstitutional way."
Mr. Ter-Petrosian mentioned that this basis completely contradicts
another official document, which is Mr. Marukian's decision. He is a
senior investigator of NSS Investigation department. On February 24 he
took criminal proceedings against the Pan-National Movement. According
to that decision content the Opposition "made an attempt of state
power takeover of RA in an anticonstitutional and violent way" only
after it was informed that Levon Ter-Petrosian had lost the elections
according to the preliminary data and got 21.5% of votes.
On February 19 it was not clear who would win. Therefore we are
puzzled why Mr. Arzumanian should have attempted to realize "power
takeover in an anticonstitutional way" on that day. It's harder to
imagine more miserable logic or awareness of Law.
Mr. Ter-Petrosian has serious basis to insist that the Judge Zhora
Vardanian made such a decision on February 19 not only against
Arzumanian, but also against many members of the Pan-National
Movement. "That is to speak about the total illegal supervision of
the Opposition pre-election campaign," said Mr. Ter-Petrosyan.