Former CC head Gagik Harityunyan said in an interview with RFE/RL's Armenian Service that the information that he was forced to resign is "from the genre of fairy tales.”

“I was elected as a member of the Supreme Judicial Council on May 28 and immediately decided that it was not appropriate for the CC President to be a member of another institution thus I resigned as CC President, which is my right,” he said.

Asked to comment whether he was forced to resign so that Hrayr Tovmasyan was elected, Harutyunyan said: “It’s a fairy tale.”