RESIGNATION IS GETTING MATURED
Support A1+!Today RA First President Levon Ter-Petrosian called a conference to declare three documents, which ground that RA authorities “won” in elections on February 19 by complete delinquency. Levon Ter-Petrosian proclaimed the decision of Chairman of Court General Jurisdiction of Kentron and Nork-Marash districts Mr. Zhora Vardanian made on mid February against Aleksandre Arzumanian. It’s said in the decision that General-Major of the RA National Security Service (NSS) Z. Nanian’s petition was satisfied and he got permission to examine Aleksandre Arzumanian on the phone and hear all his phone talks. It’s a solid ground for Levon Ter-Petrosian to say, “It means the authorities entirely controlled all the events of our staff, the alarm calls received from districts, all the information provided to the empowered staff members, observers and journalists. As well as this, state embodies supervised all the instructions related to the appealing process. Therefore it’s a case of gross violation of the Constitution and Election Code, which could cause national riots and governmental crisis in any normal country just like the “Watergate” scandal which led to Nickson’s resignation.”
Mr. Ter-Petrosian detailed, “The only assumption as a basis of applied measures against Arzumanian is that he may have been implementing activities which may cause RA internal political instability, civil uprising which could be a basis for realizing power takeover in RA in an anti-constitutional way.”
Mr. Ter-Petrosian mentioned that this basis completely contradicts another official document, which is Mr. Marukian’s decision. He is a senior investigator of the NSS Investigation Department. On February 24 he took criminal proceedings against the Pan-National Movement. According to that decision content the Opposition “made an attempt of state power takeover of RA in an anti-constitutional and violent way” only after it was informed that Levon Ter-Petrosian had lost the elections according to the preliminary data and got 21.5% of votes.
On February 19 it was not clear who would win. Therefore we are puzzled why Mr. Arzumanian should have attempted to realize “power takeover in an anti-constitutional way” on that day. It’s harder to imagine more miserable logic or awareness of Law.
Mr. Ter-Petrosian has serious basis to insist that the Judge Zhora Vardanian made such a decision on February 19 not only against Arzumanian, but also against many members of the Pan-National Movement. “That is to speak about the total illegal supervision of the Opposition pre-election campaign,” said Mr. Ter-Petrosian.
