YEREVAN, JANUARY 29, NOYAN TAPAN. Based on the application of Armenian Times daily's editor-in-chief Nikol Pashinian, the RA Constitutional Court on March 5 will examine a case disputing the January 14 decision of district election commission (DEC) No 10 on election of a National Assembly deputy by the majoritarian electoral system. As NT was informed by the press service of the Constitutional Court, the speakers on the case will be court members Henrik Danielian and Felix Tokhian, the defendant is DEC No 10, and the co-defendant is the Central Election Commission of Armenia. To recap, as a result of the by-election held in Yerevan's electoral district No 10 on January 10, member of National Unity party Ara Simonian was elected a deputy of the RA National Assembly. Another candidate running in the by-election was Nikol Pashinian. After the by-election, he was sentenced to 7 years in prison on a charge of organizing mass disorder on 1 March 2008. The court decision has not come into force yet: February 19 is the deadline for an appeal. The third candidate running in the by-election in electoral district No 10 was chairman of the Marxist Party of Armenia Davit Hakobian.

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