Six months after mandate, Armenia's constitutional reform council has not met to discuss new constitution

Six months after being tasked by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian with drafting a new constitution of Armenia, an hoc government panel has still not met to discuss the matter, a senior official said on Friday. The Constitutional Reform Council was formed by Pashinian in 2022 with the initial aim of proposing amendments to the current Armenian constitution. He changed the council’s mandate in May this year, saying that it must draft a “new constitution” from scratch before January 2027. The move came as the Azerbaijani leaders continued to make the signing of a peace treaty with Armenia conditional on a change of its constitution which they say contains territorial claims to Azerbaijan. [ . . . ] Minasian said in August that the referendum on the new constitution will likely take place in 2027, after the next parliamentary elections due in June 2026. Daniel Ioannisian, a civic activist sitting on the Council, suggested on Friday that it may well be held later.
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