YEREVAN. – The constitutional amendments pose no risk to the country’s security and borders.  

MP Margarit Yesayan of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (RPA), which supports these amendments, assured the aforementioned at Tuesday’s talk with residents of Gandzak village in the Gegharkunik Province.

Yesayan noted this within the framework of the ongoing reality TV program devoted to the proposed constitutional amendments, ahead of the forthcoming respective referendum.

“When the constitutional amendments were initiated, the sole condition which President of the Republic [of Armenia (RA)] Serzh Sargsyan posited before the respective working group was that no article [in the Constitution] be amended in such a way that it impairs the RA security, our people, borders,” the RPA deputy specifically said.

In her words, although there are social and economic problems in Armenia, it is among the top ten safest countries in the world, in terms of security.

The referendum on Armenia’s constitutional amendments will be conducted on Sunday.

Pursuant to the proposed amendments, the country will make a transition from a semi-presidential to a parliamentary system of governance, and conduct completely proportional parliamentary elections.

The opponents of these amendments, however, consider them to be primarily the authorities’ attempt to hang on to power.