Ruling party: Armenia's Constitution illegitimate

Armenian MP of the “Civil Contract” faction Vahagn Aleksanyan has told journalists that the country’s Constitution is illegitimate.

"We see what problems we have in the Constitution, and there are many of them. The first of the problems is the legitimacy of the Constitution, because almost everyone in the political field of Armenia, except for the then authorities, has always recorded that the constitutional referendums were held with a lot of electoral violations and under no circumstances can the Constitution, adopted with such changes, be considered legitimate. Already the problem is that we are living under a Constitution that is illegitimate," Aleksanyan said, Caliber.Az reports.

"Secondly, it is necessary to change the Constitution, it is necessary to change the way of thinking, it is necessary to fix Armenia as an absolute value. Yes, there are points we talk about, including the reference to the Declaration of Independence. We openly talk about it with the public, no matter how many manipulations, lies and forgery there are, especially on the part of the political forces ruling this or that country. It is clear that Armenia must have a Constitution that serves Armenia, not one written at the dictates of the empire, in the conditions of the collapse of that empire, in order to lay mines under Armenia, so that if one day the empire decides that it needs to reunite to work.

My impression is that there are points that are built in. It is written in the Constitution that Armenia must fulfill the desires of the Armenian people. Now let someone explain to me how Armenia should simultaneously fulfill the desires of both Russian Armenians and American Armenians.

From the point of view of the Armenian state, should there be a sign of equality between the lives of Armenian citizens and the lives of people who are our compatriots but live abroad? I believe that it is not normal to put an equal sign," the MP noted.