Friday, September 6 2019 11:38

ArmInfo. There is no Robert Kocharian, and he will never be in politics. He simply cannot be there, the system itself, on which he is trying to enter politics, is  doomed. A similar opinion was expressed by ArmInfo, Advisor to the  First President of Armenia on National Security Issues, member of the  Karabakh Committee, analyst Ashot Manucharyan.

"Both Robert Kocharian and Serzh Sargsyan were governed by an  external usurious system from the very first day they assumed the  post of head of state. Accordingly, their steps did not proceed in  any way and could not proceed from the interests of the state, the  interests of Armenia. They proceeded exclusively from the interests  of the system. What kind of politics can we talk about here, "he  said.

According to the analyst, almost all people grouping around Kocharian  today are related to one degree or another to political killings and  other crimes that took place during his term in power. According to  him, we are talking about people connected with the murders of  Yerevan Mayor Hambartsum Galstyan, KGB chairman Marius Yuzbashyan,  and the shooting of parliament on October 27, 1999. In this light,  Manucharyan advised all those who continue to persistently insist  that Kocharyan is a politician to think carefully about these  killings, the killing of 10 people on March 1, 2008, all the people  who ended up behind bars on his whim, and people who were subjected  to violence. "Let them think carefully and look into the eyes of all  these people, more precisely the victims of Kocharian who are still  alive. With one statement that Kocharyan is a politician, you become  accomplices of all these crimes. Become an accomplice in another  attempt to undermine Armenia, even if you are against Kocharyan as a  politician.  And you will be responsible for this complicity in  court. At best, "Manucharyan summed up.

On September 4, the Constitutional Court of Armenia partially  satisfied the claim of the defense, who was arrested on charges of  overthrowing the constitutional order, Robert Kocharian - Article 35  of the RA Criminal Code was declared unconstitutional and unlawful,  since it does not provide for the functional inviolability of  officials vested with special protection by the Constitution,  including circumstances excluding the proceedings in a criminal case  or criminal prosecution.

On the second appeal of Kocharyan's defense on the review of  compliance with the Constitution of Part 2 of Article 135 of the  Criminal Procedure Code of the Republic of Armenia, the  Constitutional Court recognized it as complying with the main law of  the country. This article challenged the constitutionality of the  institution of proceedings against him. Thus, the Constitutional  Court ruled that the verdicts adopted today, in accordance with part  2 of Article 179 of the Constitution, are final and come into force  from the moment they are published. At the same time, the chairman of  the Constitutional Court Hrayr Tovmasyan stated that the two judges  of the Constitutional Court - Arman Dilanyan and Felix Tokhyan have a  separate opinion, and the decision of the Constitutional Court will  be announced in full within three days.