ArmInfo. Chair of the Standing Committee on Financial -Credit, Budgetary Affairs of the National Assembly of Armenia Gevorg Papoyan, on February 7, in a conversation with journalists, commenting on the fears of opponents of the adoption of the new Constitution that the government would falsify and use administrative resources to ensure the desired result following the constitutional referendum, ruled out such a "prospect".
According to Papoyan, tens of elections have been held in Armenia after 2018, at the level of Local government s, at the republican level, and not a single vote was lost or falsified. "The Civil Contract (the party in power, ed. note) acts as opposition in 30% of communities in Armenia. Could you imagine this in 2000? If we had used administrative levers, would we not have been able to ensure the necessary number of votes in the elections to the Council of Elders of Yerevan? (in September 2023, the Civil Contract failed to get a majority,ed. note). We don't even know how it works," said the parliamentarian.
On January 19, at the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Armenia, Pashinyan said that Armenia needs a new Constitution that will make the Republic of Armenia more viable in the new geopolitical conditions. The prime minister's opponents stated that the initiative comes from Baku, mainly with the aim of eliminating from the Constitution references to the Declaration of Independence, which contains reference to the resolution on the reunification of the Armenian SSR and Nagorno-Karabakh. The 11th paragraph of the Declaration of Independence, which states that the Republic of Armenia supports international recognition of the Armenian Genocide of 1915 in Ottoman Turkey, is also considered problematic.