Commenting on the news of the mass media about personnel changes expected to be made in the government, Governor of Kotayk Province of Armenia Romanos Petrosyan told reporters that he hasn’t received any offer to serve as minister.

According to Petrosyan, he is performing his duties and has already refuted the information. “On March 13, I will be on leave to participate in the campaign for the constitutional referendum,” he added.

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.