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    Emil Lazarian
  • 8 years ago
    • Categories: 2018

168: Parliament fails to elect member of Constitutional Court

| 11:49 | May 4 2018
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Politics

The Armenian parliament failed to elect a member of the Constitutional Court during today’s vote. Emil Babayan was nominated for the post by the Armenian President.

Gagik Melikyan, chairman of the counting committee, announced the voting results.

54 MPs took part in the voting from the overall 105. 51 lawmakers voted in favor of Babayan’s candidacy, while three voted against.

Babayan needed at least 63 votes to be elected member of the Constitutional Court. Prior to the voting, opposition factions Tsarukyan and Yelk said they will not vote.

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS