ArmInfo.The Parliament of Armenia made a decision on submitting draft amendments to the Constitution to the referendum. Prior to this, today the parliament has not adopted a bill to amend the Constitution. The citizens of the country in fact are offered to express their will on the issue.
During the meeting, Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan spoke. In particular, he stated that at one time the Republican Party of Armenia usurped power belonging to the people. Pashinyan emphasized that the issue of the Constitutional Court should be decided by the people of Armenia. The prime minister also called on judges of the Constitutional Court to resign before the president signs the referendum law.
In turn, PACE has already spoken on this topic. PACE co-rapporteurs for monitoring in Armenia called on Yerevan to send a bill to the Venice Commission on amendments to the republic's constitution in order to remove the head of the Constitutional Court and a number of judges and wait for the conclusion. They noted that this opinion, in the case of a referendum, would be valuable to all parties.
The National Assembly of Armenia decided to submit draft amendments to the Constitution to the referendum. 88 MPs voted for, against - 15, not a single MP abstained. To recall, even before the vote, the MP from the Prosperous Armenia faction Mikael Melkumyan stated that their faction would not take part in the vote.