Snap parliamentary elections should be held in Armenia either in May or within the first ten days of June of next year, at the latest, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said during his Facebook livestream on Sunday evening.

“Of course, it’s said within a year, and that largely depends on the political situation,” Pashinyan noted, in particular. “And the main dictating political force in that political situation will be the citizen of the Republic of Armenia, the people of Armenia.”

Pashinyan recalled that the current constitution specifies that in order to hold a snap parliamentary election in Armenia, the Prime Minister must resign, whereupon the National Assembly should not elect a new PM twice within two weeks, and then the parliament shall be dissolved by law.

“[But] citizens want that there will be certain guarantees that they will not have to carry out a revolution again, after the supposed resignation of the Prime Minister,” he said. “Now we are working on the constitutional amendments. The package will be ready soon, and we will send it to the parliament. In this context, we will have political discussions as well as come to common decisions, as a result of discussions with the people.”