Armenian prime minister calls for new constitution to alter constitutional court

19 June 2020
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan of Armenia (photo credit: NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization/flickr)
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan of Armenia (photo credit: NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization/flickr)
Armenia should adopt a new constitution that could abolish the country’s Constitutional Court, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said on Monday, June 15. Pashinyan insisted that he wants to establish an “organic connection between the state order and the will of the people,” rather than cement his hold on power. Most Armenians, he said, do not feel such a connection because they played no part in the enactment of their country’s post-Soviet constitution and numerous amendments to it made by their former governments.
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