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From: Ina Iankulova (iiankulova@sorosny.org)
Date: Thu Apr 17 2003 - 11:52:13 EDT
ARMENIAN CONSTITUTIONAL COURT RULES THAT PRESIDENTIAL POLL WAS VALID
The Constitutional Court rejected on 16 April a lawsuit by defeated presidential candidate Stepan Demirchian claiming that the February-March presidential ballot was marred by legal, constitutional, and procedural violations and should therefore be declared void, RFE/RL's Yerevan bureau reported. But the court acknowledged Demirchian's claim that the official returns from some 40 constituencies are "not credible" due to ballot-box stuffing and other irregularities. The court ordered the Prosecutor-General's Office to launch a criminal investigation into those irregularities. The court also recommended that existing election legislation be amended to provide for the holding of a "referendum of confidence" in the country's leadership, and that such a referendum be held within the next 12 months, Noyan Tapan reported. LF
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