ArmInfo. The speaker of the parliament signed the law "On the Constitutional Court", Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan said on his Facebook page. Pashinyan, in particular, wrote: "The Chairman of the National Assembly of Armenia today signed the law" On the Constitutional Court ", adopted by the parliament on June 30. The law will come into force today and three new judges of the Constitutional Court will be elected in the near future>.
Note that on June 30, Armenian President Armen Sarkissian informed the Speaker of the Parliament Ararat Mirzoyan in writing that he did not intend to sign the law on amendments and additions to the law "On the Constitutional Court". To remind, on June 22, the Armenian parliament adopted in the second and final reading the draft amendments to the Armenian Constitution through a constitutional law.
According to the document, the powers of judges of the Constitutional Court, who have been in office for more than 12 years, should be terminated. Under this bill, judges Alvina Gyulumyan, Felix Tokhyan and Hrant Nazaryan lost their positions, and Hrayr Tovmasyan ceases to be the head of the Constitutional Court and becomes a judge. Also, the bill provides for the procedure for nominating candidates for vacancies in the Constitutional Court. First, the government will present its candidates, after which the president, and finally the General Assembly of Judges.