Haykakan Zhamanak: Armenia’s Constitutional Court to face reshuffle

Alvina Gyulumyan, a judge representing Armenia at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), is reportedly expected to join the Constitutional Court soon.

Citing its “reliable sources”, the paper says that her term in office is expiring later this month. But she reportedly intends to quit office earlier than scheduled given that the CC will soon have two vacant positions. Two members, Valery Poghosyan (a former minister of education) and Manuk Topuzyan (a former chief of staff of Government), are retiring this year, says the paper.

“Gyulumyan, who went to the ECtHR from the CC, has thus decided not to miss the occasion and ‘sacrifice’ the couple of months to be spent in Strasburg for a job at the Constitutional Court,” the paper says, commenting on the report.

It says further that David Harutyunyan, the chair of the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on State and Legal Affairs, is the most likely candidate to replace Gyulumyan at the European Court.