Constitutional Court Rules Against Melikian
Panorama.am reports that the Constitutional Court has not accepted presidential candidate Arman Melikian’s claim that new restrictions on voting overseas are unconstitutional. The restriction was adopted as part of a package to allow dual citizenship.
Melikyan disputed the changes in Electoral Code article2, describing it as against the constitution. According to the change Armenian citizens being abroad do not have the right to take part in the forthcoming elections. He said that it is illegality. “I have a large mass of electors abroad, and now they are forbidden to vote for their candidate. Thus I consider the pre electoral time and campaign to be under threat,” he said.
It is important to remind that the Armenian citizens abroad were deprived to elect when some changes were made in the Electoral Code in February 2007. The changes were named as following “The elections in the Republic of Armenia take place only in the territory of the Republic of Armenia”.
- Published:
- 02.05.08 / 1am by Onnik
- Category:
- Armenia, Armenia Presidential Election 2008, Democracy, Diaspora, Legislation, News Briefs, Voting
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