A festive event dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the Constitution of the Republic of Armenia was held at the National Academic Opera and Ballet Theater after Alexander Spendiaryan. The Prime Minister, congratulating everyone on Constitution Day and the 30th anniversary, presented the ideology of Real Armenia.

Nikol Pashinyan touched upon how the theme of the Constitution intersected with the ideology of Real Armenia during the last year. 

According to the President, it has become clear that we cannot complete and evaluate the ideology of Real Armenia in its entirety by bypassing the issue of the Constitution because these topics are directly related and intersect with each other.

"It is related to the slogan 'Motherland is the state. Do you love the homeland? Strengthen the state." And this slogan is connected to the 500-year history of our nation. Why am I saying all this on Constitution Day? Having loved the Motherland for 500 years in a row, sometimes even hating the state, has our civil subconsciousness not overcome this subconsciousness of love for the Motherland and resistance to the state? In the course of discussions, I became convinced that resistance to the state has become an acquired reflex for us and we have a problem of overcoming it," the Armenian Prime Minister said.

Nikol Pashinyan noted that in his perception the people of Armenia continue to perceive the legal system that has been formed in Armenia over the past 35 years as something determined not by them as a rule of coexistence, but again by other people without their participation.

"A Constitution, as I understand it, is an agreement of citizens on the relations within a country in relation to each other: citizen-citizen, citizen-society, society-government, and, in general, an agreement on the legal order in the country that should be expressed in the Constitution. 

Faced with the problem of why our citizens do not feel a sense of kinship with this legal order, I have come to the well-known but unspoken conclusion that, nevertheless, our current Constitutions, since 1995, have at least left open the question that they were adopted by the free will of the people and the free vote. At least, this is a question, the answer to which is not unambiguous," Nikol Pashinyan noted. 

According to the Prime Minister, our Constitution, our legal system, yes, were formulated by serious specialists, but what should have happened through the free will of the people did not happen in reality. According to the President, that's why the people of Armenia still perceive the Motherland as a platform for resistance against the state. They don't feel that the order of life that operates today in the Republic of Armenia was formed through their expression of will.

According to Nikol Pashinyan, the Republic of Armenia needs a new Constitution, which should have a specific goal, which should express the reality that already exists today in the Republic of Armenia.

"This reality is as follows: the Republic of Armenia says to its citizens: the homeland and the state are no longer identical, but unlike our entire previous period, our history of many thousands of years, our message should be extremely clear, and the meaningful expression of this message should be a new Constitution adopted by the free will of the people of Armenia. And this Constitution should say: citizen of the Republic of Armenia, you are the state, you are the Republic of Armenia," he concluded.