Armenia`s new Constitution could be adopted not earlier than 2027

ArmInfo. The adoption of the new Constitution of Armenia will occur no earlier than 2027. This  forecast was made by the head of the public organization "Union of Informed Citizens", member of the Council for Constitutional Reform, Daniel Ioannisyan.

"The issue of reference to the Preamble of the Constitution and/or  the Declaration of Independence has not been discussed in council and  will not be discussed in the near future.

At today's meeting of the Council, the model of the future  Constitution was discussed (it should be one that defines principles,  not microregulations)>, the head of the NGO wrote on his page on the  social network.

As Ioannisyan noted, at the upcoming meeting the issue of abandoning  the norm guaranteeing a stable majority will be discussed.

At a rally on March 1, 2021, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced  a number of shortcomings in the current Constitution, which emerged  especially during crisis management. He also said that it was  necessary to discuss changes to the Constitution, including the  possibility of moving to a semi-presidential system of government. On  January 27, 2022, the Council for Constitutional Reforms was created.  That same year, in November, the Council spoke in favor of  maintaining the parliamentary form of government in Armenia.

On January 19, 2024, at the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of  Armenia, Pashinyan stated that Armenia needs a new Constitution that  will make the Republic of Armenia more viable in the new geopolitical  conditions. And on February 1, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev  said that a peace treaty between Baku and Yerevan could be signed  only after amendments were made to the Constitution of Armenia. The  counterparts of the RA Prime Minister 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.

At the beginning of July this year. Pashinyan said that the ruling  majority in Armenia is inclined to abandon the legislative imperative  of forming a stable majority following the results of parliamentary  elections.