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From: Abe Rein (ARein@sorosny.org)
Date: Fri Apr 18 2003 - 15:26:48 EDT
ARMENIAN PRESIDENT REJECTS CALLS FOR 'REFERENDUM OF CONFIDENCE'
The presidential press service said in a statement released on 17 April
and reported by Noyan Tapan that Robert Kocharian will not comply with a
Constitutional Court's proposal of 16 April to hold a "referendum of
confidence" to allay widespread doubts about the validity of the
February-March presidential election. That proposal was contained in the
Constitutional Court's ruling rejecting an appeal by defeated
presidential candidate Stepan Demirchian that the poll be annulled in
the light of alleged procedural, legal, and constitutional violations
(see "RFE/RL Newsline," 17 April 2003). Vahan Hovannisian, one of the
leaders of the Yerevan Bureau of the Armenian Revolutionary
Federation-Dashnaktsutiun which backs Kocharian, argued on 17 April that
the Constitutional Court's proposal to hold a "referendum of confidence"
contradicts its simultaneous ruling that the presidential election
outcome is legal and valid, Noyan Tapan reported. LF
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