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We have a crisis of democracy and legal state. in addition to the legal embarrassment, all this has an element of great moral embarrassment; Vardevanyan about the detention of deputies

10.12.2021

We have a crisis of democracy and legal state. in addition to the legal embarrassment, all this has an element of great moral embarrassment; Vardevanyan about the detention of deputies
We have the fact that our friends were detained for so many months. "Armenia" faction MP Aram Vardevanyan said this in a conversation with journalists, referring to the decision of the Supreme Court on the immunity of MPs. "At the session of August 2, I literally read Article 96 of the Constitution three times. I am sorry that not a single deputy of the ruling faction was present in the National Assembly to say: I read Article 96, and why are you detaining those people?" We have a crisis of democracy, legal state, because the Constitutional Court is one of the last measures. Apart from the legal shame, all this has a component of great moral shame. The decision of the Constitutional Court is binding not for me, for you, but first of all for civil servants," he said. Aram Vardevanyan mentioned that the same prison cannot keep the deputies. "Wait, what should you name it?" he said. He mentioned that if you abolish arrests, you have to have new grounds to detain a person again and assured that this will never happen. When asked whether he does not see a political trend in the decision of the CC, the deputy said no. "There are some simple truths that no matter how much they pressure the Constitutional Court, it is impossible to say the opposite. If something is black, they will say it is black, it is white, they will say it is white, and if there are several colors, the pressure is effective there," he said and noted that although the Constitutional Court could have made a decision earlier, it could have made it later.