TER-PETROSSIAN RESPONDS TO KOCHARIAN
Support A1+!“Robert Kocharian's office has been illegitimate since the first day. Under the Constitution he had no right to run for presidency either in 1998 or in 2003. From the very first day of his nomination President Kocharian has been violating the Constitution,” Armenia's First President Levon Ter-Petrossian declared at Liberty Square today.
Robert Kocharian had no right to dismiss a minister / Defense Minister Vagharshak Harutiunian / without the Prime Minister's offer. Today that very man is speaking of hooliganism and illegal rallies. The man constantly breaching the Constitution has no right to criticize others. A few days ago Kocharian again violated the Constitution dismissing the senior diplomats and stripping the ambassadors' of their ranks after they had shared their political standing. The President is not empowered to dismiss diplomats. How can a person breaking human rights and the Bible speak of morality and call for sobriety?”
The ralliers burst out shouting, “Shame on him!”
All these violations, according to Levon Ter-Petrosyan, must receive a due legal assessment in the Constitutional Court.
Levon Ter-Petrossian also spoke of the oligarchic system. He reiterated his thesis that oligarchs are the victims of the system, because they run businesses and have to obey the system.
