YEREVAN. – The political opposition now has quite a lot of levers to oversee the course of the upcoming constitutional referendum and the process of tallying the respective results.

Member of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia National Assembly (RPA NA) Faction, Hovhannes Sahakyan, on Wednesday noted the aforementioned in the NA.

Sahakyan is one of the MPs who have introduced the bill that enables to vote in the above-said referendum not solely with passports, but also with ID card.

In his words, the opposition’s respective argument is that people should not be eligible to vote with ID cards because it is impossible to put a relevant control stamp on these cards.

“This is not an indisputable argument,” the RPA deputy said. “The society, including the opposition, has working resources to fight against double-voting and other election fraud. (…). So, a stamp is not the only control mechanism. And it’s all the same, it has not ‘rescued’ from different types of [election] violations.”

The referendum on Armenia’s draft constitutional amendments is slated for December 6.

Pursuant to the new draft Constitution, the country will make a transition from a semi-presidential to a parliamentary system of governance.

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