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Directly after the failure of the extraordinary session of the NA on November 21 the Armenian National Congress fraction initiated collection of signatures in order to apply to the CC. Finally it is now over. The fraction leader Levon Zurabyan said about it at the press-conference on November 29.

He noted that the application text is ready and will be published later. ‘We demand to declare Article 44 Section 4 of the NA regulatory law, i.e., holding extraordinary sessions, incompatible with Articles 70 and 71 of the RA Constitution’ said L. Zurabyan.

Article 70 of the Constitution provides that it is the NA President who convenes NA extraordinary sessions by the initiative of 1/3 of the total number of MP’s or the Government.

According to Article 71 of the Constitution the laws and NA decision, with the exception of the cases prescribed by the constitution, are adopted by the majority vote of the participating MPs, if more than the half of the total number of MPs participated in the voting. ‘In other words, the Constitution limits the decision making with respect to participating and voting MPs by Article 71. The concept of quorum is not provided in the Constitution’ highlighted the ANC fraction leader.

‘We consider it a matter of principal and that is why we decided to apply to the CC’ he said, adding that when the necessary 27 signatures to apply to the CC are collected, they will apply. ‘I think that it should be the concern of all those political powers, which initiated this extraordinary session and qualified the extraordinary session failure as violation of their constitutional rights’ said L. Zurabyan.

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