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    EX-MILITARY PROSECUTOR HOPES THE PRESIDENT OF ARMENIA TO VETO BILL ON THE LEGAL REGIME OF THE STATE OF EMERGENCY

    arminfo
    Friday, March 23, 15:22

    The Bill On the Legal Regime of the State of Emergency passed by
    the Armenian Parliament is unconstitutional and the oppositional
    Armenian National Congress (ANC) alarmed of that yet in November
    2011 when the bill was still under elaboration. Gagik Jhangiryan,
    ex-military prosecutor of Armenia, Head of the ANC Commission for
    State and Legal Affairs, told media on March 23.

    He said that the Constitution bans involvement of the Armed Forces
    in political processes unlike the bill. Jhangiryan thinks that hasty
    adoption of such bill on the threshold of elections is just warning
    against post- election public protests. "It is a peculiar message to
    manage the public and make it close eyes on the arbitrariness of the
    ruling regime during the elections process," Jhangiryan said.

    Nevertheless, he hopes the president will veto the bill, otherwise
    the Congress will be fighting against the bill's coming into force
    by all means possible.

    The National Assembly of Armenia approved on Wednesday the second and
    final reading of a bill determining the legal regime of the state of
    emergency by 68 votes "for", 0 votes "against", and 0 "abstentions".

    The president in cooperation with the prime minister and the parliament
    speaker can announce the state of emergency in response to a real
    threat to the country's constitutional system, like a coup, an armed
    rebellion, mass disturbances, an occupation, an ethnic, racial or
    religious conflict, and can be ensured by the police and the national
    security service. The army should be used only if the police and the
    national security service fail the task.




    From: A. Papazian
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