One can concede that the range of privileges and immunities in Armenia is, to outside eyes, extraordinary. Protecting Presidential candidates and people standing for elections, from arrest as well as shielding them from criminal and administrative liability, by granting the Central Election Commission the right to decide thereon by a two-thirds majority is tantamount to giving them a very privileged status even before they have actually been elected to a position of responsibility. Impeachment of a president or a judge is one thing, and a two-thirds majority requirement would there seem justified, but requiring the same for a mere unelected candidate for office would seem excessive.
