Armenia’s defense system is vulnerable and risky under the current Constitution.

President of the Armenian Public Relations Association, Arman Saghatelyan, noted the aforementioned at Wednesday’s talk with the residents of Abovyan city in the Kotayk Province.

Saghatelyan noted this within the framework of the ongoing reality TV program devoted to the proposed constitutional amendments, ahead of Sunday’s respective referendum.

“The country’s defense system works well under today’s Constitution, since the country’s President has parliamentary majority, and he is able to make the right decisions,” he added.

And MP Artsvik Minasyan of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) Dashnaktsutyun Party, which supports these amendments, stated that making constitutional amendments in Armenia had been a demand by the country’s political arena, and that is why these draft amendments were put forward.

The referendum on Armenia’s constitutional amendments will be conducted on Sunday.

Pursuant to the proposed amendments, the country will make a transition from a semi-presidential to a parliamentary system of governance, and conduct completely proportional parliamentary elections.

The opponents of these amendments, however, consider them to be primarily the authorities’ attempt to hang on to power.