YEREVAN. – Rumor has it that the Armenian authorities decided to hold a referendum on Constitutional amendments next year, 168 Zham newspaper writes.

“The new Constitution stipulates replacement of semi-presidential system with a parliamentary one. Prime Minister will have de facto power. Under this scenario, President Serzh Sargsyan will abandon his post in 2017 to head the proportional list of the Republican Party of Armenia during the next parliamentary elections and will take the post of a prime minister.

According to the same sources, it has been decided that President of Constitutional Court Gagik Harutyunyan will head the committee on constitutional amendments. Most likely the committee will be set up this December,” the newspaper writes.