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.