Op-ed: Building an Armenian Constitutional Court to last

By Raffi Elliott, 24 July 2020
Yerevan, Armenia (photo credit: Tamara Areshian/flickr)
Yerevan, Armenia (photo credit: Tamara Areshian/flickr)
This week, a long-awaited amendment to Article 213 of the Armenian Constitution—replacing at least three of the nine Armenian Supreme Court Justices—has come into effect. “Three new Constitutional Court judges will be elected soon,” Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced on Facebook. A fourth member of the Supreme Court, now-former Chief Justice Hrayr Tovmasyan—the architect of the 2015 constitutional reform package that grandfathered him a near-lifetime appointment to the court—must now resign his leadership, but remains a member. Neither he nor his three colleagues, former Justices Alvina Gyulumyan, Felix Tokhyan and Hrant Nazaryan, went down without a fight.
Read the full article here: Armenian Weekly

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