According to the RA Law on Referendum, the Constitution or the amendments to it are enforced after Central Commission and the laws adopted through referendum enter into force on the next day from the moment of publishing the drafts in the “Official Bulletin of the RA.”
“The constitution or the legal act on amendments in it should be published in the official bulletin and come into force after 10 days. However if there are persons who will appeal against the results of constitutional referendum, in this case it cannot come into force 10 days after publishing in the official bulletin. It shall enter into force after 5 days since the decision of the Constitutional Court’s”, member of the Armenian Young Lawyers Association, advocate Syuzanna Soghomonyan says․
According to her, after the new constitution comes into force, activities aimed at coincidence of the legislative field will be carried out. However the fundamental activities will start after the parliamentary and presidential elections.
“We are changing a whole system of governance. Since its independence, Armenia has been a semi-presidential republic, but speaking conditionally, it will become parliamentary in 2016,” said the adocate.
In addition to the government system, the legal field will be changed, including judiciary; the Judicial Council will be modified, different age brackets for the judicial tenure for judges will be defined.
“These changes are also associated with huge financial and human resources. Citizens and lawyers need to start studying the Constitution from the very beginning” said the advocate. “The same practitioners shall act in compliance with the new Constitution, which provides for amendments in three branches legislative, executive and judicial.”
