A New Decision will be Made
00:00, March 30, 2007 | Local Democracy, Support for civil iniciativesOn March 28th the court of first instance of Lori region partially upheld the claim of the group initiating local referendum against Regional Electoral Commissions #30 on obliging to make a decision on registering the initiative group.
The court decided to invalidate the decision of the Regional Electoral Commissions #30 “Rejecting registration of the group initiating local referendum” and obliged them to make a new decision with participation of the members of the initiating group.
On March 21st 2007, Regional Electoral Commissions #30 rejected the request to register an initiative group. The electoral commission made the decision by ballot without the presence of the members of the initiating group. While the third paragraph of the article 40 of RA Electoral Code defines that the applicant is entitled the right to be present at the discussion of his application. In this case the electoral commission #30 violated RA Electoral Code.
In order to stop the violation the initiating group applied to the court of first instance of Lori region.
If the verdict is not willfully executed it can be done through law enforcement agency.