The events that took place yesterday have nothing to do with a legal state and are unlawful. This is what constitutional expert Gohar Meloyan told reporters today, talking about the amendments made to the Constitution.

“Several constitutional laws and provisions clearly enshrined by the Constitution were breached yesterday. The haste was rather incomprehensible, but in terms of content, it was comprehensible and was a repetition of almost the same thing that was happening in January and February when the ruling party was trying to solve the artificial crisis of the Constitutional Court through a referendum. The only thing that has changed in this scenario is that the authorities refused to hold a referendum since they understand that their rating is dropping,” Meloyan said.

According to Meloyan, what was very symbolic was the release of the Venice Commission’s advisory opinion in which the Venice Commission stated that the bill on constitutional amendments needed to be submitted to the Constitutional Court and that there had to be a transitional stage for establishing the premature powers of judges.

Meloyan added that discussion on the issue of the Constitutional Court was supposed to be one of the last issues for the ruling party at a time when the coronavirus is spreading at an unprecedented rate in the country and when the ruling party has failed in the fight against the spread of the virus and there are nearly 400 deaths and thousands of infected persons.