Unconstitutional Attorney General: Another Blow to Artur Davtyan

The newspaper 'Zhoghovurd' reports: 'The Constitutional Court dealt another blow to the Attorney General. Yesterday, the Constitutional Court rejected the application of the Republic of Armenia's Attorney General, which effectively requested permission from the Constitutional Court to change the charges against the second President Robert Kocharyan. Just last week, Artur Davtyan stated in the National Assembly that the issue was not closed and that he had appealed to the Constitutional Court, and after that decision, the case proceedings would continue. However, yesterday the Constitutional Court rejected Davtyan, once again demonstrating that his legal analyses and approaches do not align with the requirements of the RA Constitution.'

This means that Artur Davtyan has initially led the 'March 1' case down an unconstitutional path, continuously asserting for the past three years that everything is legal. This implies either a deliberate action towards that direction or a lack of professionalism; both are fatal. Now, in concrete terms: Artur Davtyan has been the Attorney General of Armenia for five years, and if we observe carefully, he has been speaking from the podium of the National Assembly for five years about the work done in revealing the ten victims of March 1, yet there have been no results for five years. Interestingly, just last week he announced from the podium that who could guarantee that if accusations were brought under another article, that article would not be deemed unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court. This, believe me, is a strange statement from an Attorney General.'

For two or three years now, various lawyers of different calibers, the European Court, and the Venice Commission have insisted and substantiated that the article under which individuals are accused is unconstitutional. Yet, the Attorney General responded with the same phrases, stating that the accusations correspond to our legislative requirements, and so on. The Attorney General also had the right to appeal to the Constitutional Court to verify the constitutionality of that article. So, what do we have now? As a result, since 2018, for three years, Artur Davtyan has reassured all of us that everything about this case is grounded and legal, while the Constitutional Court found that the article is unconstitutional, and consequently, the charges are illegal, leading the court to suspend those charges. For the second time, the Constitutional Court clarified to Davtyan that he is unaware of the Armenian Constitution.'

We have this; meaning Artur Davtyan has been the Attorney General of Armenia for five years, and the murders of ten individuals remain unresolved, with no one having been punished. This is a fact, and while it is presented that arduous work has been done on this case, there is a simple formula: the effectiveness of the work done is determined by the results. As we can see, there are no results.'