The bill wasn’t scandalous because the judiciary also expressed support to the bill and somehow wanted to see the adoption of the bill since it would solve longstanding issues in terms of more effective investigation of cases and discharge of workload. This is what Minister of Justice of Armenia Rustam Badasyan told reporters today, touching upon the laws on making amendments and supplements to the Constitutional Law “Judicial Code of Armenia” and on making a supplement and amendment to the law on the Academy of Justice which the President of Armenia hadn’t signed and had forwarded to the Constitutional Court to determine their constitutionality.

The President had mentioned that enforcement of the laws shouldn’t be problematic from the perspective of maintenance of the principles of independence and impartiality of judges and exclusion of any interference in the implementation of justice that are enshrined by the Constitution.

“As far as applying to the Constitutional Court is concerned, the National Assembly will submit to the Constitutional Court its comments, and the government will also submit its comments, if it has the chance, and we’ll wait for the Constitutional Court to make a decision,” the minister said.

When told that the President of Armenia has already expressed his stance and indicated the problems, Badasyan said if the government had seen the same problems, it wouldn’t have presented the bill.