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Eurasianet (23 September 2020)

Ani Mejlumyan 

Armenia’s ruling party has elected three new judges to the country’s Constitutional Court, the culmination of a long battle between the new government and the judicial system.

But the fact that the new justices are tied, in varying ways, to the former regime has prompted questions about what the long fight actually achieved.

The three judges were approved by parliament on September 14, with overwhelming approval from the ruling My Step coalition and over a boycott by the body’s two opposition factions.

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