Op-Ed: Post-democracy in Armenia? How the new Constitution will depoliticize Armenian society

<p><span>Is the new constitution an attempt by Armenian capital and oligarchs to signal to EU elites and European capital that they are determined to fulfil transnational capital’s wildest dreams? A conversation.</span></p><p><strong>Davit Stepanyan:&nbsp;</strong>Ingar, you were recently in Armenia and you are aware that on December 6, a referendum for changes in the current Constitution is scheduled.</p><p>At the local level it is noteworthy that, under the pretext of moving from a semi-presidential to a parliamentary system, the RPA (Republican Party of Armenia) and the person occupying the president’s post (who, under the current constitution, cannot run for president for a third time) are trying to establish a particracy similar to that in the USSR during the Brezhnev era.</p>
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