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    OPPOSITIONIST: BILL ON LEGAL REGIME OF STATE OF EMERGENCY RUNS COUNTER TO CONSTITUTION OF ARMENIA

    arminfo
    Thursday, February 9, 19:27

    The Bill on Legal Regime of the State of Emergency adopted by
    the Armenian Parliament on Feb 9 completely runs counter to the
    Constitution of Armenia, Zoya Tadevosyan, representative of the
    opposition Armenian National Congress, said at today's press conference
    in Yerevan.

    "By adopting this bill, the authorities make the lawlessness legal,
    hereby insuring themselves against an attempted revolution in case
    of electoral fraud and against reoccurrence of 1 March events, which
    have probably been planned already", Tadevosyan said.

    For his part, MP from the ruling Republican Party of Armenia Artak
    Davtyan stressed the necessity of this law for the cases when the
    national security is endangered. He welcomed this law and said:
    "We even should have passed this law before 2008 to legalize the
    safety measures in case of extreme situations", Davtyan said.

    To recall, on Feb 9 the Armenian Parliament adopted the bill on
    Legal Regime of State of Emergency in the first reading. According to
    the bill, the state of emergency in the republic may be introduced
    only in case of circumstances which are directly dangerous for the
    Constitutional regime of Armenia. To ensure the legal regime of the
    state of emergency, the forces of police, national security and state
    security structures may be used. The armed forces should be used
    only in case the forces of the police and national security cannot
    implement their task.

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