The court on Tuesday accepted President of the Constitutional Court of Armenia Hrayr Tovmasyan’s statement of claim against Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan for proceedings, as reported the Judicial Information System.
The President of the Constitutional Court demands that Pashinyan be obliged to apologize for his offensive remarks and refute defamatory information.
During his January 25 press conference, Pashinyan declared that “Hrayr Tovmasyan had offered his services since May 2018, first on a daily basis, then on a weekly basis and later on a monthly basis.”
Afterwards, Hrayr Tovmasyan gave the Prime Minister twenty days to present any evidence of this, after which the Prime Minister went live on Facebook and showed a pen that the President of the Constitutional Court had given him.
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