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INITIATIVE TO PREVENT GAS PRICE RISE LAUNCHES DRIVE FOR SIGNATURES
21:43 ~U 15.11.13
The civil initiative To Prevent Gas Price Rise has organized a drive
for signatures in Yerevan Freedom Square.
The activist Aram Grigoryan told Tert.am that the initiative decided
to appeal the Public Services Regulatory Commission's "wrong decision"
in the Administrative Court this August.
"The Commission made an illegal demand for hearing in camera. But
the Commission is supposed to protect public interests, and its
activities must be transparent. When we applied to court we had only
five signatures and were told that a few signatures did not represent
public interests. And we are trying to prove the opposite now,"
Mr Grigoryan said.
According to him, the Commission is executing political orders.
With respect to the necessary number of signatures, the activist
Andrias Ghukasyan told Tert.am that according to the law the court
can apply oral procedure if it is convinced of the issue being of
public importance.
"The essence rather than the number of signatures is of importance,"
he said.
"We have 500,000 gas consumers and 700,000 electric energy consumers
in Armenia. So the public cannot but be indifferent to the problem,"
Mr Ghukasyan said.
Several thousand signatures can prove it is a matter of public concern.
The drive will last for a week. In Armenia's regions it will start
from next Monday.
http://www.tert.am/en/news/2013/11/15/gaz-tert/
21:43 ~U 15.11.13
The civil initiative To Prevent Gas Price Rise has organized a drive
for signatures in Yerevan Freedom Square.
The activist Aram Grigoryan told Tert.am that the initiative decided
to appeal the Public Services Regulatory Commission's "wrong decision"
in the Administrative Court this August.
"The Commission made an illegal demand for hearing in camera. But
the Commission is supposed to protect public interests, and its
activities must be transparent. When we applied to court we had only
five signatures and were told that a few signatures did not represent
public interests. And we are trying to prove the opposite now,"
Mr Grigoryan said.
According to him, the Commission is executing political orders.
With respect to the necessary number of signatures, the activist
Andrias Ghukasyan told Tert.am that according to the law the court
can apply oral procedure if it is convinced of the issue being of
public importance.
"The essence rather than the number of signatures is of importance,"
he said.
"We have 500,000 gas consumers and 700,000 electric energy consumers
in Armenia. So the public cannot but be indifferent to the problem,"
Mr Ghukasyan said.
Several thousand signatures can prove it is a matter of public concern.
The drive will last for a week. In Armenia's regions it will start
from next Monday.
http://www.tert.am/en/news/2013/11/15/gaz-tert/