YEREVAN. – Today, the Constitution stipulates that if the constitutional amendments are not passed by the National Assembly (NA), the parliament may decide by three-fifths to put the issue to a referendum. Vahagn Hovakimyan, a member of the NA majority My Step faction, said this in a conversation with reporters in parliament today, referring to the draft constitutional amendments which stipulate that the powers of the Constitutional Court members who were elected as such before April 2018 shall be terminated..

He explained the respective tactics they have chosen. The My Step faction will not pass this constitutional amendment in the first reading and, using the power given to it by Article 202 (3) of the Constitution and by virtue of the unchangeable Article 2 of the Constitution, the matter will be submitted to a referendum. And the world has not yet invented a more democratic and legal method than a referendum."