Armenia’s new Constitution draft expected to be published this month

The draft text of Armenia’s new Constitution is expected to be published in November, Minister of Justice Srbuhi Galyan has said.

Galyan said that more than 95% of the draft text has already been discussed with members of the Constitutional Reform Council.

“I think we will manage to hold one more meeting of the Council before the text is published. The publication of the text is already scheduled for this month,” Galyan said at a press briefing.

She added that even after publication, the Constitution will remain a draft. Galyan called on citizens to treat it as such and approach it critically, submitting their observations and comments so that broad public discussions could help produce a consensus-based, or potentially consensus-based, version of the draft, which would then be proposed for submission to a referendum.