YEREVAN. – According to the Constitution in the writing of which I participated, the constitutional amendments are subject to preliminary constitutional oversight; the Constitutional Court did not discuss such a draft, such a document. Hrayr Tovmasyan, President of the Constitutional Court (CC) of Armenia, stated this in a conversation with journalists Tuesday in front of the court.

"In the Constitution which is in force, it is not written that if the constitutional amendments apply to the Constitutional Court, it is not subject to preliminary constitutional oversight," he said.

But Tovmasyan did not want to comment on the constitutional amendments passed by the National Assembly. "There is a legal principle: it is not a person's right to obey or disobey invalid legal acts, but he has no right to obey it," Hrayr Tovmasyan emphasized.