No matter how much the Heritage Party along with the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun, or ARF-D) fought so that the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) doesn’t end up this way, the authorities are in a life buoy and so it remained the same, Heritage Party MP Armen Martirosyan, speaking about the make-up of the new CEC, told reporters in Yerevan today.<\/p>\n
According to the opposition deputy, speaking about any independent body in Armenia today is a fairy tale. The Heritage Party proposal stated that the extra-parliamentary opposition also had to be involved in the process of forming all committees. There were going to be controllable factors, continued Martirosyan, but, as a result of dialogue, what happened was that which was supposed to have happened.<\/p>\n
“The principle with which the current CEC has been formed, that is, the Human Rights Defender [pictured], the Court of Appeals Chamber of Advocates, it seems as though are the most independent bodies, [but] practice showed that this was all an illusion, since the Human Rights Defender specifically declared a competition and supposedly tried to create the make-up of the CEC through a competitive way, but this competition itself was a farce,” said Chamber of Advocates member and Heritage Party representative Anushavan Nikoghosyan.<\/p>\n
Nikoghosyan also noted that the three days alloted for accepting applications for being part of the Commission were non-working days.<\/p>\n
“This likewise, undoubtedly, I believe, would have an impact on the number of applications. Then that which everyone knows about happened: elected were two people who had previously worked with the Ombudsman in the same law firm, after which they dramatically resigned<\/span><\/strong><\/a>, allowing the Ombudsman to eventually nominate CEC candidates dictated by the authorities, which happened<\/strong><\/span><\/a>,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" No matter how much the Heritage Party along with the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun, or ARF-D) fought…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":109590,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[65942,29513,12075,15584],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114221"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}