Judicial Code contradicts the Constitution, Armenia’s President Armen Sarkissian applies to CC

Armenia’s President Armen Sarkissian decided to apply to the Constitutional Court to determine the constitutionality of the bill on making amendments in the constitutional law on Judicial Code.

President’s press service reports that the bill was submitted to the president by the NA on March 22, 2021.

The president discussed the bill with the minister of justice and chairperson of State-Legal Affairs Standing Committee and experts.

The offered regulations are situational and problematic from the viewpoint of legal certainty, proportionality, division of power branches as well as correspondence to constitutional principles and demands of independence of judicial power.

“Based on the above mentioned and summarizing the expert opinions, it appears that the law significantly contradicts the Constitution, therefore the president of the republic decided to apply to Armenia’s Constitutional Court,” the president’s press office reported.