The fact that the geopolitical situation in the region and in the whole world is complex currently does not mean that Armenia should not conduct reforms in the country, Hovhannes Sahakyan, Head of the Armenian Parliamentary Commission on State and Legal Affairs told ArmInfo's correspondent, relating to Armenia's first president Levon Ter-Petrosyan's latest article, in which he says that in such complex geopolitical conditions constituting threat for Armenia also, it is not reasonable to conduct such conceptual Constitutional reforms as this may destabilize the situation in the country and make it vulnerable for the external challenges.
"I hold the contrary opinion, its high time to conduct profound reforms in the current geopolitical situation, which will contribute to the growth of the country's readiness to counter the external challenges and this relates to the Constitutional reforms as well", Sahakyan noted.
Touching upon Ter-Petrosyan's statement that three-quarters of the Armenian population is against the Constitutional reforms, and that the authorities do not have serious arguments in the draft campaigning, the Head of the Committee said, "By stating that the three-quarters of the Armenia's population is against the Constitutional reforms, Levon-Ter Petrosyan has maybe got this data mixed up with the data of the Constitutional referendum of 1995 (Armenia's first Constitution was adopted in 1995 during Levon-Ter Petrosyan's presidency ed. note). Levon Ter- Petorsyan's statements that the authorities do not have enough arguments for the conducting the Constitutional reforms are also groundless. The strongest argument, which speaks well for us, is the consolidation of the political forces around the draft. Note, that the political forces of the opposition side have also consolidated around the referendum idea, and the fact that 101 from 131MPs of the National Assembly approved the draft reforms is the result of this consolidation".