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Seda Ghukasyan

Armenian Parliament Approves Bill to Hold Referendum to Amend Constitution

Armenia’s National Assembly, by a vote of 88 to 15, passed a bill approving a national referendum to amend the country’s constitution.

The referendum seeks to modify Article 213 of the constitution and thus allow for the early termination of Constitutional Court Chairman Hrayr Tovmasyan and other court members.

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has led a drive calling for the early retirement of Tovmasyan and other court members seen as supporters of the ousted regime of Serzh Sargsyan.

Pashinyan has called on Tovmasyan and his court colleagues to voluntarily retire before the referendum takes place.

The clash between the court and the executive branch has caught the eye of the co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe for the monitoring of Armenia, Andrej Šircelj (Slovenia, EPP/CD) and Kimmo Kiljunen (Finland, SOC).

They have called on the Armenian government to request, as soon as possible, the opinion of the Venice Commission, the Council of Europe’s expert body on constitutional law.

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