TRUST REFERENSUM IS TO TAKE PLACE
Support A1+!Considering the application of presidential candidate Stepan Demirchyan on declaring invalid the elections, on April 16, 2003 Constitutional Court decided to leave unchanged CEC decision, simultaneously suggesting Parliament and Armenian President to hold a Trust Referendum within a year.
The above decision of CC became a subject of discussions. ”All the opponent stances saying CC exceeded its commission while making the decision are senseless”, Stepan Safaryan, expert of Armenian Centre of National and International Studies, says.
According to Safaryan who was the guest of “Political Debate Club”, “CC was obliged to finally settle the conflict but it just offered a mechanism for the problem solution”.
The expert says the reason for this is that CC hasn’t enough and appropriate powers and it couldn’t assess the volumes of vote frauds and the consequences of them on the election results.
He also said like any other CC decision the one for Trust Referendum is final, too, and is subject to obligatory implementation.
