The draft amendment to the Constitution can’t be put to a referendum so long as it hasn’t been adopted in the first reading and hasn’t been approved by the Constitutional Court. This is what President of the Constitutional Court Hrayr Tovmasyan’s lawyer Amram Makinyan wrote on his Facebook page.

The Facebook post particularly reads as follows:

“My dears, please read Article 86 of the Constitutional Law “Rules of Procedure of the National Assembly”. According to the Rules of Procedure, the draft amendments to the Constitution shall be considered in the National Assembly in two readings. Only after draft amendments are adopted in the first reading (88 votes are required) and approved by the Constitutional Court can the National Assembly consider the issue of adopting the specified bill or designating a referendum. The draft amendment to the Constitution can’t be put to a referendum so long as it hasn’t been adopted in the first reading and hasn’t been approved by the Constitutional Court.

Stop mocking the law.

The bill completely contradicts the Constitution and Article 86 of the Constitutional Law “Rules of Procedure of the National Assembly”.”