WOUNDED ARMENIAN POLITICIAN AGAINST POSTPONING ELECTION
YEREVAN, February 5 (RIA Novosti) – Armenian presidential candidate
Paruyr Hayrikyan, who was injured last week in an apparent
assassination attempt, has no plans to ask the country’s
Constitutional Court to postpone the forthcoming elections, his lawyer
Levon Bagdasaryan said on Tuesday.
The 63-year-old leader of the Union for National Self-Determination
was shot in the shoulder near his house in the capital Yerevan late on
Thursday. The bullet was later safely removed by surgeons but
Hayrikyan currently remains in a hospital.
According to Armenia’s constitution, elections can be delayed for two
weeks if a candidate faces “circumstances of insuperable force.”
Such a delay would have to be initially requested by the candidate
himself, and then it is up to the country’s Constitutional Court to
decide on the issue, said earlier David Arutunyan, who chairs
Armenia’s parliamentary commission on legal issues.
Hayrikyan is one of eight candidates standing in Armenia’s February 18
presidential election, which analysts predict is likely to return
incumbent President Serzh Sargsyan for a second term.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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