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    ARMAN MELIKYAN WILL DISPUTE AGAINST OUTCOME OF ELECTION

    Lragir
    Feb 5 2008
    Armenia

    The Constitutional Court had declined the presidential candidate
    Arman Melikyan's appeal against the unconstitutional provision of
    the Election Code which bars the Armenian citizens abroad from voting.

    On February 5 Arman Melikyan stated at the Friday Press Club that
    he had met the chief justice of the Constitutional Court Gagik
    Harutiunyan the day before who explained why his appeal had been
    declined. Arman Melikyan says the explanation satisfied him and was
    compliant with the law. The point is that a presidential candidate
    can go to the Constitutional Court only in case of obstacles that
    cannot be overcome or to dispute the outcome of the voting.

    Therefore, since Arman Melikyan's appeal does not meet any of these
    demands, he is going to turn to the ombudsman of Armenia to appeal to
    the Constitutional Court to restore the right to vote of the citizens
    of Armenia living abroad. Arman Melikyan said he will first consult
    lawyers and afterwards he will appeal to the ombudsman.

    The presidential candidate says it is immoral to deprive people of the
    right to vote who in fact sustain half of the population of Armenia. If
    the human rights defender declines to appeal to the Constitutional
    Court, if he does not launch a process of restoring the rights of
    the citizens of Armenia abroad, Arman Melikyan says he is going to
    dispute the outcome of the presidential election despite the outcome
    of the voting. The presidential candidate says the Armenian parliament
    feared enabling the Diaspora to vote, but in reality it caused more
    trouble because several hundreds of thousands of Armenian citizens
    who are living abroad were deprived of the right to vote.

    He says if there were a wish, it is possible to manage to restore
    the right to vote of the Armenian citizens abroad even before the
    presidential election, but even in case it does not take place,
    if the process is launched, he will be satisfied because it will
    guarantee a possibility to solve this problem before the next election.
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