Onik Gasparyan's Termination Decision by Administrative Court Does Not Imply Compulsory Enforcement: Badasyan

The President of the Republic has raised an objection to the Prime Minister's petition to dismiss the Chief of Staff, which the head of the Government did not accept, while Article 139, Part 2 of the Constitution explicitly regulates that this act legally comes into force. This was stated by Minister of Justice Rustam Badasyan during a briefing with journalists in the National Assembly.

"This constitutional norm does not allow for any twists. We are dealing with the conclusion of a process in which the Chief of Staff has been dismissed from his position, and the decision of the Administrative Court does not imply any compulsory enforcement. Constitutional norms cannot be interpreted in a way that would lead to a return to the previous situation," the minister clarified.

Badasyan also pointed out that the same constitutional norm applies to the appointment of Artak Davtyan as Chief of Staff. "The President has already made a statement that he will not sign the petition and will not appeal to the Constitutional Court. Therefore, according to the legal force of the constitutional provision, Davtyan's appointment will come into effect; nothing else depends on the will of the authorities in this matter," he emphasized.