YEREVAN. – President Serzh Sargsyan has declared war on his own people.

Head of the opposition Armenian National Congress National Assembly (ANC NA) Faction, Levon Zurabyan, stated the aforementioned at Friday’s NA briefings.

“Only Serzh Sargsyan (…), Chairman Gagik Harutyunyan of the [President-affiliated Specialized] Committee on Constitution[al Reforms] (…) as well as the ARF [i.e. the Armenian Revolutionary Federation Dashnaktsutyun Party] (…), and a few small [political] forces (…) support the constitutional reforms,” said Zurabyan. “But the rest of the entire society of Armenia is against [these reforms].”

The NA on Monday passed, by a vast majority of votes, the decision on agreeing to hold a referendum on the draft amendments to the Constitution.

Pursuant to the new draft Constitution, Armenia will make a transition from a semi-presidential to a parliamentary system of governance, and conduct completely proportional parliamentary elections.

The President has set December 6 as Referendum Day.