Levon Ter-Petrosyan, Robert Kocharyan, and Serzh Sargsyan were and remain the main enemies of Armenia`s independence, says the speaker of parliament

ArmInfo. Levon Ter-Petrosyan, Robert Kocharyan, and Serzh Sargsyan were and remain the main enemies of Armenia's independence. This was written by RA National Assembly Speaker Ruben Rubinyan on his Facebook page.

"Their political heirs spare no effort in the fight against Armenia's independence on behalf of their Kaluga masters. I am especially ashamed of Aram Manukyan, who has turned into a real Levon Zurabyan," the speaker noted, adding that "Kaluga mercenaries will be routed by an independent Armenia."

Rubinyan also touched on the issue of the country's new Constitution. According to him, forces that falsified election results oppose its adoption. This refers, in particular, to the elections of 1995, 2005, and 2015. Which, according to the Speaker of the National Assembly, were falsified by Levon Ter-Petrosyan, Robert Kocharyan, and Serzh Sargsyan. "And now their supporters continue their actions against democracy by uniting in blocs aimed at opposing the referendum on the Constitution, the adoption of which will give the Armenian people the opportunity to obtain their own Constitution for the first time. They call this document all sorts of names: the Turkish-Azerbaijani Constitution, the Aliyev Constitution, but one thing is clear: the forces that three times went against the will of the people, falsifying election results and not allowing the people to have their own referendum, call the new Constitution foreign. Do you understand? "And they are foreigners from head to toe, from Levon Ter-Petrosyan to Serzh Sargsyan and their henchmen, but this time we will not allow them to use force to influence the referendum results," the parliament speaker said.

It should be noted that the adoption of a new Constitution of Armenia is in the stage of active political preparation. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and the Armenian authorities have announced the publication of the official draft of the new Constitution. The Prime Minister states that the adoption of a new Basic Law is an internal matter for the country and part of a strategy to ensure the long-term stability of the state. The authorities also note that the draft should expand the powers of parliament and the opportunities for the opposition. One of the key points is considered to be the removal from the preamble of the Constitution of the reference to the Declaration of Independence of Armenia, which mentions reunification with Nagorno-Karabakh.

The parliamentary and extra-parliamentary opposition strongly opposes this initiative. Opposition forces and lawyers, including representatives of lawyers' associations and individual parties, claim that the demand to amend the Constitution was imposed by Azerbaijan as a condition for a peace agreement, and view the process as a threat to sovereignty and national identity.

Amendments to or the adoption of a new Constitution in Armenia require a national referendum. A referendum requires the approval of at least two-thirds of the National Assembly deputies, and if there is no consensus, Pashinyan did not rule out the possibility of holding early parliamentary elections.