Armenian Election Monitoring Groups protest against pushing forward constitutional reform by the presidential administration - European Platform for Democratic Elections

Advocacy, Statement

Armenian Election Monitoring Groups protest against pushing forward constitutional reform by the presidential administration

On September 4, 2013, President Serzh Sargsyan made a unilateral decision to introduce amendments to the Constitution of the Republic of Armenia. The referendum was pushed forward by the authorities rather quickly and aggressively. Many international standards for referendums, as set forth in Venice Commission’s Code of Good Practice on Referendums (2007) are not observed.

(October 8, 2015)

Armenia