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EX-PRESIDENT LEVON TER-PETROSIAN ASKS CONSTITUTIONAL
COURT TO ADJOURN ELECTION DATE
YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 8, ARMENPRESS: Former president
Levon Ter-Petrosian, one of the nine contenders for
the February 19 presidential election, has asked today
the country's highest Constitutional Court to adjourn
the ballot citing a set of obstacles which he says
make his further participation in the election
processes as envisaged by the Election Code
impossible.
A statement disseminated by Ter-Petrosian's central
campaign office says the ex-president asked the
Constitutional Court to consider his complaint and
rule these obstacles as `forcer majeure.'
The former president, particularly, complained of
the Hayloor news program of the Public TV, which he
says has been furthering a propaganda campaign against
him for three months and providing a deliberately
distorted coverage of his election campaign in gross
violation of the Law on Public TV and Radio.
Ter-Petrosian also complains that the Public TV
provides airtime to candidates at an unfavorable time
making it actually impossible for him to mitigate the
aftereffects of the campaign against him.
He says his campaign office took all legally
stipulated actions to prevent this `illegality' but
with no results.
If the Constitutional Court rules that these
obstacles indeed constitute `force majeure' it will
have to put off the election date by two weeks. If
these obstacles remain then new election shall be held
in 40 days.
EX-PRESIDENT LEVON TER-PETROSIAN ASKS CONSTITUTIONAL
COURT TO ADJOURN ELECTION DATE
YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 8, ARMENPRESS: Former president
Levon Ter-Petrosian, one of the nine contenders for
the February 19 presidential election, has asked today
the country's highest Constitutional Court to adjourn
the ballot citing a set of obstacles which he says
make his further participation in the election
processes as envisaged by the Election Code
impossible.
A statement disseminated by Ter-Petrosian's central
campaign office says the ex-president asked the
Constitutional Court to consider his complaint and
rule these obstacles as `forcer majeure.'
The former president, particularly, complained of
the Hayloor news program of the Public TV, which he
says has been furthering a propaganda campaign against
him for three months and providing a deliberately
distorted coverage of his election campaign in gross
violation of the Law on Public TV and Radio.
Ter-Petrosian also complains that the Public TV
provides airtime to candidates at an unfavorable time
making it actually impossible for him to mitigate the
aftereffects of the campaign against him.
He says his campaign office took all legally
stipulated actions to prevent this `illegality' but
with no results.
If the Constitutional Court rules that these
obstacles indeed constitute `force majeure' it will
have to put off the election date by two weeks. If
these obstacles remain then new election shall be held
in 40 days.