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“Removing Hrayr Tovmasyan from the post of the Constitutional Court President has neither been a top issue nor a second, third, or fifth for us,” the Speaker of the Armenian parliament Hrayr Tovmasyan stated on Thursday at a briefing with reporters.

Mirzoyan’s comments came in response to the statement by former senior staffer of the Armenian National Assembly Arsen Babayan, who suggested his prosecution and arrest were aimed at stepping up pressure on Constitutional Court Chairman Hrayr Tovmasyan in an effort to force him to resign or fire him in any other way.

“We have dozens of issues and challenges ahead of us and continue solving them. In the meantime, I continue describing the situation around the Constitutional Court as a “crisis”,” Mirzoyan said.

To remind, SIS earlier opened criminal case over the legality of Hrayr Tovmasyan’s appointment to the post of President of the Constitutional Court. According to the investigation, Tovmasyan was appointed as a result of a usurpation of power by a group of officials, including the former Speaker of Parliament Ara Babloyan and Deputy Chief of the Parliament staff Arsen Babayan.

Babloyan was involved as a suspect, while is charged with forging documents during the resignation process of then Constitutional Court Chairman Gagik Harutyunyan.