Armenia has bigger problems than the referendum for constitutional amendments, and among those problems is the economy. This is what political technologist Karen Kocharyan told reporters today.

He expressed concern about the fact that there are no investments and there is low currency turnover. He also noted that if the current president of the Constitutional Court wrote a bad Constitution, the Constitution should have been completely amended.

On April 5, Armenia will hold a referendum for amendments to a particular article of the Constitution. The authorities have proposed early termination of the powers of 16 members of the Constitutional Court, including the president of the Constitutional Court, referring to them as representatives of the former “regime”. Besides the ruling My Step Alliance and former President Levon Ter-Petrosyan’s Armenian National Congress political party, all other political parties have refused to participate in the campaign and have referred to it as legally vulnerable, to say the least. The response will be considered affirmative not only in case of half of YES votes, but also not less than quarter of voters included in voters’ list, that is, nearly 650,000 people.