Summarizing yesterday’s and today’s developments in the judicial system, the “Citizen’s Decision” Party states: “For decades, we have seen how the right to make decisions has been stolen from us. Continuous fraudulent elections have deprived us of our constitutional right to participate in the governance of the country. The substituting each other groups that had appropriated the public administration system, purposefully paralyzed the only legitimate way for the citizens to form a management system through free elections. By the second step they broke the justice system – the backbone of the country, because in any other situation they would have appeared behind the bars immediately. They concentrated and subjugated most of the press that had the mission to be free, the economy, monopolized the political field, made the formal political activity useless; distort the political mind, made impossible its development.

It was impossible to realize this without the involvement of the judiciary, prosecutors and other persons acting in the justice system who were the puppets of the corrupt and usurped groups. Decisions were made in the courts on behalf of the Republic of Armenia that did not come from the constitutional principles and laws but served the individual members of the regime and their group interests. As a result, we have seen widespread violations of citizens’ rights, we have had hundreds of political prisoners, people have been deprived of property, and many criminals have appeared in freedom and continue to act freely. In our estimation, great emigration from Armenia was largely conditioned by not only socio-economic conditions, but also with the atmosphere of impunity in the country, with desperation on the impossibility of achieving justice.

All this led to the fact that in April-May 2018, the overwhelming majority of citizens gave their consent to the removal of the regime without organizing election-related suspicions, restoring the constitutional order in the country. The expectations of the public, which first of all relate to the recovery of the judiciary were and are legitimate.

We can state that the judicial system is guided by old values ​​and is unable to provide new solutions to the challenges facing the country. It is restricted with numerous social connections to the old system, crimes committed jointly and a system of value with incompatible with the new Armenia.

For more than a year we have tried to push to the first place on the political agenda the issues related to the legitimate Constitution, the independence of the judiciary, the separation of business from the public administration system, and the clarification of the formal political field that are in line with the reality of the new Armenia. We welcome the political will of the executive and legislative bodies to restore the judicial system. We hope that this agenda will be fully implemented in a short, reasonable time and institutional, functional mechanisms will be created so that there is no real need to go to the streets to regulate our state relations.

We reaffirm our commitment to the revolutionary agenda, values, and constitutional principles. We are ready to combine our efforts with all stakeholders to bring that agenda to life.”