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Edmon Marukian, the leader of the opposition Bright Armenia Party (LHK), on Tuesday ruled out a power-sharing agreement with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian that would enable the latter to remain in power after snap general elections expected in June.
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YEREVAN When Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian signed a Russian-brokered cease-fire in November to end the war with Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh, it created a tumultuous postwar crisis that has eroded public confidence in Yerevan s political establishment.
Opinion polls show the approval rating of Pashinian s government has fallen from about 60 percent in September 2020 to around 30 percent today.
Pashinian s allies faced with political upheaval and declining public confidence in politicians are now working to change the country s election laws ahead of snap parliamentary elections expected in June.
The 45-year-old Pashinian s My Step alliance is revamping parts of the Electoral Code that were put in place in 2016 by his predecessors, the Republican Party of Armenia (HHK), two years before the Velvet Revolution swept him into office.
Kocharian Cleared Of Coup Charges
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A judge in Yerevan threw out on Tuesday coup charges against former President Robert Kocharian which Armenia’s Constitutional Court has declared unconstitutional.
Kocharian as well as two retired generals were charged in 2018 with overthrowing the constitutional order” under Article 300.1 of the Armenian Criminal Code. The accusation rejected by them as politically motivated stems from the 2008 post-election unrest that left ten people dead.
The current Criminal Code was enacted after the dramatic events of March 2008. In a March 26 ruling, the Constitutional Court backed defense lawyers’ arguments that it cannot be applied retroactively against Kocharian and the other defendants.
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An Armenian judge has dropped a criminal case against former President Robert Kocharian and his co-defendants over a deadly crackdown on protesters more than a decade ago.
Anna Danibekian, the judge presiding over the two-year trial in Yerevan, threw out the coup charges on April 6, 11 days after the Constitutional Court found “invalid” an article of the Criminal Code under which the accused were being prosecuted.
However, Danibekian ruled that Kocharian and his former chief of staff, Armen Gevorgian, will continue to stand trial on bribery charges which they also deny.
Kocharian, who served as president from 1998 to 2008, and two retired generals, Yuri Khachaturov and Seyran Ohanian, were charged in 2018 with overthrowing the constitutional order.