ArmInfo.The process of dismissal of Hrayr Tovmasyan from the post of President of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Armenia has started in the Armenian parliament.
As the Armenian parliament Speaker Ararat Mirzoyan wrote on his Facebook page, the draft decision of the National Assembly to appeal to the Constitutional Court on the suspension of the powers of the head of the Constitutional Court Hrayr Tovmasyan was sent to the parliament's standing committee on state and legal issues. "The draft decision of the National Assembly on appeal to the Constitutional Court on the suspension of the powers of the head of the Constitutional Court Hrayr Tovmasyan, which was submitted by the fraction of the My Step bloc, was sent to the parliament's standing committee on state and legal issues in order to conclude," Ararat Mirzoyan wrote.
To recall, on September 4, the Constitutional Court of Armenia granted the defense claim of Robert Kocharyan - Article 35 of the RA Criminal Code is recognized as unconstitutional, since it does not provide for the functional inviolability of officials who are specially protected by the Constitution, including circumstances that exclude criminal proceedings or criminal prosecution. "This article is found to be contrary to clause 4 of part 1 of article 27, part 1 of article 61, part 1 of article 63, articles 75 of the Constitution," the Constitutional Court said. 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 country's main law. 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.
It should be noted that Robert Kocharyan was arrested on charges of overthrowing the constitutional order.