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PRESIDENT VETOES OMBUDSMAN LAW

Politics

Armenian National Assembly members started their three-day routine session on Monday. After discussion over a number of issues vice-speaker Tigran Torossyan told the lawmakers president Kocharyan had vetoed the law on ombudsman adopted on October 25, 2004.

Robert Kocharyan demands to amend the law so that the law on civil servants would apply to ombudsman institution workers. Ombudsman Larissa Alaverdyan is opposed to the idea of amending the law.

Rafik Petrossyan, the head of parliamentary commission on state and legal issues, said the commission unanimously supported Kocharyan’s veto. “Our today’s duty is sustain or decline the veto. What’s the next is not so important. Maybe a new law will be worked out”, he said.

The only MP that didn’t share such an approach to the issue was Hamlet Harutyunyan. He objected saying the ombudsman’s opinion should also be heard.

Rafik Petrossyan said nobody from the ombudsman institution, including Larissa Alaverdyan, could present their discontent convincing justifications.

National Assembly voted 80 to 0 in favor of the president’s veto and amended the law.