The Constitutional Court of Armenia hasn’t accepted for proceedings the applications of the Prosperous Armenia faction of the National Assembly of Armenia and independent MP Tigran Urikhanyan (Urikhanyan is not part of the faction) challenging the constitutionality of the law on constitutional amendments adopted by the National Assembly. This is what Secretary of the Prosperous Armenia faction Arman Abovyan told Armenian News-NEWS.am.

Abovyan said the Constitutional Court didn’t accept the applications for proceedings since the applications needed to be signed by 27 deputies, but there were only 26 signatures.

“In any case, for us, applying to the Constitutional Court with 26 signatures was a political action. We knew very well what could have happened, and this is why I would like to remind that there is also another application that we have submitted with the Bright Armenia faction,” Arman Abovyan said.

On July 26, the Prosperous Armenia Party applied to the Constitutional Court to challenge the constitutional amendments adopted by the Parliament on June 22.

Based on the amendments, Hrayr Tovmasyan had to be relieved of his post of President of the Constitutional Court, and judges having served for 12 years had to be dismissed.

The Bright Armenia faction didn’t join the application, declaring that it will apply to the Constitutional Court after the end of the examination of the case of second President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan in the Constitutional Court.