Comments on: Illegal Candidate? http://blog.oneworld.am/2008/02/01/illegal-candidate/ News, Photography, Blogs & Analysis Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:43:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: nazarian http://blog.oneworld.am/2008/02/01/illegal-candidate/#comment-2027 nazarian Fri, 01 Feb 2008 19:45:54 +0000 http://blog.oneworld.am/2008/02/01/illegal-candidate/#comment-2027 There is nothing in the law allowing people in “political or discretionary positions” to hold their position in the government and campaign. The only candidate allowed to to so is the President or the acting President. These are kind of extra-judicial irregularities that discredit the rule of law in the country. The authorities keep coming up with these laughable explanations that fly in the face of the law and logic. If Serj Sargsian gets elected, he will be tainted with illegitimacy as much as Kocharian did (first with the decision of the Constitutional Court in 1998 that he resided in Armenia for 10 years even though he was in Karabakh all that time, and second when Kocharian ignored the ruling of the Constitutional Court that recommended to have a referendum about his second term 'victory'). There is nothing in the law allowing people in “political or discretionary positions” to hold their position in the government and campaign. The only candidate allowed to to so is the President or the acting President.

These are kind of extra-judicial irregularities that discredit the rule of law in the country. The authorities keep coming up with these laughable explanations that fly in the face of the law and logic.

If Serj Sargsian gets elected, he will be tainted with illegitimacy as much as Kocharian did (first with the decision of the Constitutional Court in 1998 that he resided in Armenia for 10 years even though he was in Karabakh all that time, and second when Kocharian ignored the ruling of the Constitutional Court that recommended to have a referendum about his second term ‘victory’).

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