Ararat Mirzoyan delivers a speech at PACE European Conference of Presidents of Parliament
“The Constitutional Court of Armenia is perceived to be the symbol of the systematic injustice and a last stand of the past regime.” Speaker of the Armenian parliament Ararat Mirzoyan stated on Thursday at PACE European Conference of Presidents of Parliament.
In Mirzoyan’s words, the body, which ought to protect the constitution, ensure its supremacy and assure the checks and balances, “is acting rather as a group of politically motivated people, deviating from their constitutional mission and consequently being a threat to common democratic values.”
“This situation is an imminent threat to constitutional security and stability which may ruin the new democratic fundament of Armenia if appropriate measures would not be implemented. Unfortunately, there are no proven universal solutions for such situations which we might usually see in transitional societies or young democracies. In some cases, young democracies fail to overcome these kinds of challenges remaining in a trap where literal interpretation of written procedures is underestimating the spirit and philosophy of law,” added the Speaker.
Mirzoyan next assured that that the settlement we will find in Armenia and will be in accordance with incontestable principles of democracy, human rights, institutional values and the spirit of law.