Lawyer: according to preliminary results, Pashinyan`s party lacks 2/3  majority necessary to amend Armenia`s Constitution

ArmInfo.  According to preliminary results of the June 7 parliamentary elections, Nikol Pashinyan's ruling Civil Contract party lacks the 2/3 majority  necessary to amend the Armenian Constitution. This is reported by  lawyer Aleksandr Kochubaev.

According to him, in practice, Pashinyan's party forms the  government, and the candidate it nominates can be elected prime  minister.

"Initially, Civil Contract has 61 mandates; 53 votes are required to  elect the prime minister. With 105 deputies in the National Assembly,  the political and constitutional thresholds are as follows: 53  votes-a simple majority-is sufficient to elect the prime minister,  adopt the government's program, and pass most ordinary laws and  decisions," the lawyer noted in his Facebook post.

Kochubaev added that 63 votes (3/5)-a constitutional majority-is  necessary for the adoption or amendment of constitutional laws, the  election of the President of the Republic, and the election of a  number of high-ranking officials provided for by the Constitution.

According to him, 70 votes (2/3)-a qualified majority-is necessary  for the adoption of the most important decisions stipulated by the  Constitution, for certain procedures for introducing constitutional  amendments, and for the exercise of certain special constitutional  powers.

"However, the elections were marred by rather serious violations of  the electoral process, which taint the results, and I consider it  necessary to appeal them," Kochubaev noted.