Has the Original Constitution Disappeared from the Constitutional Court? The Court Responds

The former head of the Constitutional Court's staff, Edgar Ghazaryan, wrote on his Facebook page: “On the day of the presidential inauguration, the original Constitution was removed from the Constitutional Court and has not been returned since. For the last time, in a live broadcast, in front of everyone's eyes, the self-proclaimed president of the Constitutional Court, Arman Dilanyan, handed it over to another self-proclaimed president, lawyer Vahe Grigoryan, who took it to the Karen Demirchyan Sports and Concert Complex, where a special session of the National Assembly was to take place for the inauguration of Vahagn Khachatryan, elected by 71 MPs from the ‘Civil Contract’ faction.

After the ceremony, the original Constitution entrusted to Vahe Grigoryan has disappeared. There are significant risks that it may be in the hands of third-year distance learning students at the Faculty of Law at Yerevan's Mkhitar Gosh Armenian State University, who might make changes to it at their discretion and literacy (the last time this happened was in 2020, when a 46-year-old student of that status, Vahagn Hovakimyan, a member of the “My Step” faction who allegedly participated in the boycotts called by Nikol Pashinyan in 2018, made alterations to it while studying, which led to an illegal seizure of power in the Constitutional Court).

I hope that after this publication, the Constitution will be found and returned to the Constitutional Court.

Auroranews contacted the press secretary of the Constitutional Court, Eva Tovmasyan, who responded: “The Constitutional Court has never commented on such nonsense and does not plan to do so in the future.”

The police informed Auroranews that they have not received such a report either.