Karapetyan: Ruling party lacks mandates for constitutional referendum

ArmInfo. Constitutional lawyers have confirmed that Nikol Pashinyan's ruling Civil Contract party lacks the necessary parliamentary mandates to hold a referendum on constitutional amendments in Armenia. Narek Karapetyan, a board member of the Strong Armenia bloc, made this statement in a video  message posted on his Facebook page.

Therefore, according to the board member, Azerbaijani President Ilham  Aliyev will not decide what Armenia's constitution will be. "We have  received a definitive answer from constitutional lawyers, according  to which, even after so many unlawful actions, election fraud, and  the theft of more than 50,000 votes from the Prosperous Armenia Party  (PAP), the authorities do not have sufficient mandates to hold a  constitutional referendum in the country, as demanded by the  President of Azerbaijan. That is, they will not be able to hold  Aliyev's constitutional referendum," Karapetyan stated.