Ombudsman awaits ARF-D’s appeal
03:20 pm | Today | Politics
The ARF-Dashnaktsutiun still hasn’t appealed to the Human Rights
Defender to file an appeal on the Armenian government’s misuse of
activities to the Constitutional Court.
This is what RA Ombudsman Karen Andreasyan told “A1+”, adding that he
couldn’t give evaluations until the appeal wasn’t presented.
“First, I would like to inform that the Ombudsman can appeal to the
Constitutional Court exclusively in relation to the issues referring
to the Human Rights Defender stated in the 2nd chapter of the
Constitution. In other cases, the Defender can’t interfere or appeal
to the Constitutional Court,” he said.
We remind that the ARF-D had presented an interpellation to the
National Assembly, calling on the NA to join their appeal and demand
the government’s resignation. Since the NA has denied the ARF-D, the
party is holding a petition and needs the signatures of 27 MPs. If the
ARF-D is able to collect that many signatures, it will be able to
appeal to the Consitutional Court and won’t need the Ombudsman’s
protection.
Karen Andreasyan assured that the Human Rights Defender’s Office would
wait for the ARF-D’s appeal to understand whether it can appeal to the
CC or not.
“We are willing to exercise all legislative powers for anybody, any
political figure or any organization that appeals to us, that is, of
course, if the issues stated in the appeals are legally correct and
can be presented literately,” the Ombudsman underlined.
From: Baghdasarian