About two months ago, National Assembly deputy and Armenian Popular Party member Vardan Mkrtchyan filed a lawsuit to the Constitutional Court to complain about some of the propositions stated in the RA law on “Alienation of property for social and state needs” approved by the National Assembly. Mkrtchyan needed the signatures of 27 deputies to file the lawsuit. Twenty-six oppositional deputies joined his initiative, including former Armenian Popular Party turned independent deputy Emma Khudabashyan.
The Constitutional Court had conveyed a meeting on May 4 to examine the lawsuit of the deputies, however, according to our sources, E. Khudabashyan recently took her signature back. This means that the Constitutional Court will not examine the case on May 4 because the petition is short by that one vote.
“But that doesn’t mean that the Constitutional Court will never examine the case,” Mkrtchyan said during a phone conversation with “168 Hours”. “No matter how much they postpone it, I will be consistent and will do everything to have the case enter the Constitutional Court again. This is an embarrassment for our country and the result of its immorality. Khudabashyan became an instrument of our authorities and the Constitutional Court as well. In fact, Khudabashyan was making rather big announcements regarding this issue. Now she threw our initiative down the drain, along with the hopes and expectations of hundreds of people. I must add that we filed this lawsuit only two months ago and the Constitutional Court had assigned the date of the examination late on purpose so that it would fail.”
According to Mkrtchyan, the oppositional deputies would not take that step because they wouldn’t discredit the reputation of their parties during the pre-election period. So, the only candidate to betray the initiating group was Mrs. Khudabashyan who, for some reason, was tempted by the Armenian authorities.
“These days they accuse Arthur Baghdasaryan of betrayal. How come Emma Khudabashyan is not a betrayer?” asks president of the “Victims of State Needs” NGO Sedrak Baghdasaryan. “Khudabashyan betrayed her people.”
We tried to get information from Emma Khudabashyan, but she was either unreachable or had somebody else answer her calls for her.