{"id":9211,"date":"2024-11-19T11:43:11","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T07:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/?p=9211"},"modified":"2024-11-19T11:47:10","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T07:47:10","slug":"these-2-resignations-are-dangerous-karen-zadoyan-on-the-resignations-of-sjc-and-anti-corruption-committee-chairmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/9211.html","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThese 2 Resignations are Dangerous\u201d: Karen Zadoyan on the Resignations of SJC and Anti-Corruption Committee Chairmen"},"content":{"rendered":"

On November 18, SJC Chairman Karen Andreasyan, Interior Minister Vahe Ghazaryan, Minister of Territorial Administration Gnel Sanosyan, IC Chairman Argishti Kyaramyan, SRC Chairman Rustam Badasyan, and Anti-Corruption Committee Chairman Sasun Khachatryan submitted their resignations.<\/span><\/p>\n

The cause of these large-scale departures was Nikol Pashinyan’s Friday statements expressing dissatisfaction with the work of law enforcement and judicial bodies.<\/span><\/p>\n

Karen Zadoyan, President of the Armenian Lawyers’ Association, told Iravaban.net that while Nikol Pashinyan, as head of government, can express his opinion publicly, two of the executive resignations pose a danger.<\/span><\/p>\n

Referring to the resignations of the SJC and Anti-Corruption Committee chairmen, anti-corruption expert Karen Zadoyan noted these two bodies have very high independence standards protected by the Constitution and laws.<\/span><\/p>\n

The SJC is an independent constitutional body ensuring judges’ and courts’ independence, and no one, including the executive head, can restrict their activities: “I see danger that the executive could influence the predictability of judicial power formation. This is very concerning, and I believe lawyers, anti-corruption activists, and organizations should provide their impartial professional assessment.”<\/span><\/p>\n

The Anti-Corruption Committee is also guided exclusively by the Constitution and laws and must maintain political neutrality.<\/span><\/p>\n

Zadoyan cited the Jakarta Principles’ resignation principle. He noted that in 2021, when the Committee was formed, Armenia’s civil society Anti-Corruption Coalition didn’t participate in the competition, stating there was political influence in appointing the Anti-Corruption Committee head, contradicting these principles.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Again, the Anti-Corruption Committee chairman resigns following a political statement. I think this is a dangerous precedent that could undermine the independence underlying the anti-corruption institutional system. The Prime Minister cannot restrict or predetermine the resignation of SJC and Anti-Corruption Committee chairmen with his request.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Details in the video.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On November 18, SJC Chairman Karen Andreasyan, Interior Minister Vahe Ghazaryan, Minister of Territorial Administration Gnel Sanosyan, IC Chairman Argishti Kyaramyan, SRC Chairman Rustam Badasyan, and Anti-Corruption Committee Chairman Sasun Khachatryan submitted their resignations. The cause of these large-scale departures was Nikol Pashinyan’s Friday statements expressing dissatisfaction with the work of law enforcement and judicial …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iravaban-net","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9213,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9211\/revisions\/9213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}