After the meeting with Gagik Jhangiryan, the “My Step” faction consulted and unanimously decided to nominate him as a candidate for membership of the Supreme Judicial Council. This was stated today, on 13 January, by the head of the “My Step” faction, Lilit Makunts, during a conversation with journalists after the meeting with former military prosecutor Gagik Jhangiryan at the National Assembly.
“The decision whether or not to nominate Gagik Jhangiryan, as well as the invitation, was conditioned by the fact that we consider Mr Jhangiryan to be a specialist in his field, and he has played a primary role in this. Of course, all those questions related to the interpretations and various positions circulating in the public sphere — all those questions were raised, and the faction’s impression in that regard was that Gagik Jhangiryan gives exhaustive answers. I think that already in the plenary session hall, the public will have the opportunity to receive clarifications on all those questions,” she said.
As for the insistence of the President of the Supreme Judicial Council that there is an age threshold for being a candidate for membership of the Council, which Jhangiryan does not meet, Makunts said: “You know that the requirements for judges and legal scholars for nomination as a candidate for the Supreme Judicial Council are different. There is an age limit for judge candidates, but for legal scholars there is not. It is no coincidence that years ago a judge was elected on that same basis, and no problem arose in that case. The reference is to Gagik Harutyunyan.”
She added that today they will present their proposal and in the coming four-day session they will discuss the question of confirming Gagik Jhangiryan as a candidate for membership of the Supreme Judicial Council.
