Things are still heating up at the Constitutional Rights’ Union. After the appeal court decided to uphold the claim of Hrant Khachatryan’s partisans and considered the results of the CRU actual and existing presidency elections as invalid, the actual CRU heads quickly held a conference and as a result have been “re-elected”. However, the fact of the matter is that the people that held a conference on February 3 were people who were unauthorized by the court to do that and as a result, that “re-election” has turned into, shall we say, strictly debatable. This is also what Hrant Khachatryan’s partisans mentioned in their announcement on Monday. They also mentioned that the decisions made by the so-called presidency and board representatives headed by Hayk Babukhanyan were considered illegal and invalid, including his being the president of the CRU. However, during a press conference on Monday, Hayk Babukhanyan announced that he is very disappointed in the work of Hrant Khachatryan at the National Assembly. Babukhanyan also said that it is not excluded that he removes Hrant Khachatryan from the CRU based on the poor work that he has done in the National Assembly. He also called Khachatryan’s partisans “rejected”, “traitors”, “trouble-makers”, “arbitraries of the current authorities”. Babukhanyan also opened the “third front” of this struggle on Monday. He announced that leader of the “New Times” political party Aram Karapetyan is busy with provocation.
“As for the announcement made by Aram Karapetyan, according to which 51 people who are members of his party that have participated in our 17th convention, I demand that he prove that. I want him to list the names of those 51 people,” said Babukhanyan and added that if Karapetyan doesn’t give him the list of the 51 people, he will classify Karapetyan as the “ill” oppositionists and will announce that Karapetyan is a phony oppositionist and is occupied with provocation in the political field. It is worth mentioning that when a short-hand report was published in the presses, according to which H. Babukhanyan had sold the seats of the CRU in the electoral commissions during the 2003 parliamentary elections and as a result, according to some presses, presidential candidate A. Karapetyan’s votes were reduced, A. Karapetyan had announced that it is not excluded that he applies to the court with that issue. “But it’s a fact that the percentage rates decreased,” said Aram Karapetyan.