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    IS THERE ANY CONNECTION BETWEEN CC DECISION AND NA?

    A1+
    [05:38 pm] 09 November, 2006

    Two days ago the Constitutional Court (CC) upheld the claim of the
    Opposition and found the involvement of judges in the electoral
    commissions anti-constitutional.

    "Provided the CC didn't make such a decision, the provision might
    be omitted from the Electoral Code as a result of the Constitutional
    amendments," says NA Speaker Tigran Torosyan while commenting on the
    CC decision.

    Prior to answering the question of A1+, Mr. Torosyan noted that the
    Constitutional amendments were of great importance in the political
    sphere and were mainly in favour of the Opposition representatives
    who were against the amendments. "The Opposition could appeal to
    the CC and make it turn down the proposal of judges' involvement,"
    added Mr. Torosyan.

    The NA Speaker doesn't see any reason for rejecting judges' involvement
    in the electoral commissions as "there a lot of countries where
    judges are involved in the electoral commissions and this arouses
    no problems. As for Armenia, there are two factors mingling with the
    endorsement of the proposal. There are two contradicting provisions in
    the acting EC. One of them stipulated that the electoral commission
    is a state institution whereas according to the other provision it
    is an independent free body."

    I see a contradiction in this connection which must be taken into
    consideration. Besides, provided electoral commissions are state
    bodies, contradictions arouse in connection with Article 98 of the
    Constitution as it states that judges mustn't hold other posts in
    state bodies."

    The NA Speaker informed A1+ that the amendments to the EC, endorsed
    during the first hearing, will be put to the second hearing in
    December.
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