Today, on 12 July, during the examination of the applications to challenge the results of the 20 June extraordinary elections in the Constitutional Court, the representative of the Prosecutor’s Office Sevak Hovhannisyan said:

“In the context of this violation, we talked about a case where we meet a rather interesting situation. The matter concerns the supporter of the “Civil Contract” party in the presence of the governor of Syunik, damaging the “Armenia” Alliance’s poster, it was added that although in that case the Prosecutor’s Office was immediately informed, but there was no statement or information on the application of coercion. In his oral speech, Mr. Vardevanyan mentioned that that person has not been arrested yet.

The outwardly convincing assertion that the person should have been arrested is a little out of place in reality, because, in fact, we are dealing with a crime under Article 185 (1) of the Criminal Code, which is essentially a private charge. I am sure that Mr. Vardevanyan is convinced that this person should not have been arrested. I am sure that if Mr. Vardevanyan had represented that person in court, he would have insisted with the same conviction that the arrest was not lawful.”

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It should be reminded that “Armenia”, “I have the Honor”, “Awakening” and “Armenians’ Homeland” parties are disputing the election results. Their applications are considered in a single joint case.

Judge of the Constitutional Court Edgar Shatiryan has been appointed rapporteur on the case. The respondent is the CEC, the body that records the election results. Related defendants are the RA Prosecutor’s Office, the Police and the Television and Radio Commission.