The combination of the Constitutional Court and Court of Cassation of Armenia simply contradicts the inalterable norm principles of the Constitution, including the legal state principle and the rule of law principle since, classically, from the perspective of the standard of protection of law, this is RETREAT. This is what constitutional expert Aram Vardevanyan posted on his Facebook page.

Vardevanyan compared Armenian constitutional justice with the American model of constitutional justice and said Armenia is in a situation where, for instance, the National Assembly, realizing that the Constitutional Court is not a subordinate body and the decisions of the Constitutional Court are rendered in observance of the supremacy of the Constitution, even by violating the Constitution, it didn’t wish to receive the position of the Constitutional Court on the alleged constitutional amendments. “Armenia is in a situation where the Constitutional Court has protected and restored the rights of thousands of people since 1996 and has correctly opposed the Court of Cassation and given preference to the rule of law. It is as a result of that opposition that law has developed…In these conditions, the offer is to eliminate the rare, but extremely major opposition, eliminate the right of a person to constitutional justice…I can’t say for the sake of what, but I can surely say that this is not for supremacy of law,” he added.