ArmInfo. The candidacy of five candidates for the position of members of the Constitutional Court is submitted to the office of the President of Armenia.
According to the press service of the RA President's Office, all five applicants were submitted for consideration to the temporary parliamentary working group, after which, according to the schedule, they had individual talks between members of the working group and the Constitutional Court. After the conversations, according to the established procedure, the working group in a closed envelope presented its opinion on each of the applicants. The mentioned opinions are submitted to the RA President who, after summarizing, will submit the candidates for approval to the RA National Assembly.
Taking into account the fact that not all applicants have agreed to announce their names, the RA President's apparatus refrains from publishing their names.
Earlier, the country's parliament twice rejected the candidatures of judges of the Constitutional Court, proposed by the General Meeting of Judges. In particular, the procedure for nominating candidates did not suit the deputies. Thus, on May 4, the National Assembly rejected the candidacy of adviser to Artsakh President Emil Babayan, and on June 13 the similar fate was suffered by the judge of the Criminal Cases Chamber of the RA Court of Cassation Elizaveta Danielyan. According to the Constitution of Armenia, the Constitutional Court judges elect the National Assembly by at least three fifths of the total number of deputies for a period of twelve years. The Constitutional Court consists of nine judges, three of whom are elected on the proposal of the President of the Republic, three - the government and three - on the proposal of the General Meeting of Judges. The judges of the Constitutional Court are in office until the 70th birthday.