A festive event was held at the Alexander Spendiaryan National Academic Theater of Opera and Ballet on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Constitution of the Republic of Armenia.

The event was attended by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, President of the Republic Vahagn Khachaturyan, President of the Constitutional Court Arman Dilanyan, representatives of legislative and executive bodies, heads of diplomatic missions of foreign states accredited in Armenia.

Prime Minister Pashinyan, President Khachaturyan and the President of the Constitutional Court delivered congratulatory speeches.

The Prime Minister, congratulating everyone on the Constitution Day and the 30th anniversary, presented the ideology of Real Armenia.

Nikol Pashinyan touched upon how the topic of the Constitution has intersected with the ideology of the Real Armenia over the past year. According to the Prime Minister, it has become clear that we cannot complete and evaluate the ideology of the Real Armenia in its entirety by bypassing the issue of the Constitution, because these topics are directly related and intersect with each other. “It is connected with the slogan “The homeland is the state, if you love your homeland, strengthen your state”, and this slogan is connected with the 500-year history of our people. Why am I saying all this on the occasion of Constitution Day? Having loved the homeland for 500 years in a row, sometimes even hating the state, is it possible that our civic subconscious has not overcome that subconscious of loving the homeland while resisting the state. During the discussions, I have become convinced that resistance to the state has become an acquired reflex for us and we have the task of overcoming it,” the Prime Minister said.

Nikol Pashinyan noted that, in his perception, the legal system established in Armenia over the past 35 years continues to be perceived by the people of Armenia as something that was not determined by them as a rule of coexistence, but by other people without their participation. “The Constitution, in my perception, is an agreement of citizens on relations within the country towards each other: citizen-citizen, citizen-community, community-Government, and in general, an agreement on the legal order in the country, which should be reflected in the Constitution. Faced with the problem of why our citizens do not have a sense of kinship with that legal order, I have come to a well-known but unspoken conclusion that, nevertheless, our current Constitutions, starting from 1995, have at least left the question whether they were adopted by the free expression of the will of the people and by free voting unanswered. At least this is a question the anwer to which is not unambiguous,” Nikol Pashinyan noted.

According to the Prime Minister, our Constitution, our legal system, yes, was formulated by serious specialists, but what should have happened through the free expression of the people's will did not actually happen. According to the Prime Minister, this is the reason why people in the Republic of Armenia still perceive their homeland as a platform for resisting the state. They do not feel that the rule of life that operates in the Republic of Armenia today was formed through their expression of will.

"The people are the ones who form the legal order. No matter what kind of golden Constitution we write, if the touch of the God of legal order, the people, on the free expression of their will, and the unequivocal, unquestionable results of the referendum, has not taken place, the homeland will continue to be perceived among us as a platform for resisting the state. And what is the solution? The solution is the following: The Republic of Armenia needs a new Constitution, approved by the people's vote, so that the people consider the Constitution theirs, their kin, the rule of living in their homeland-state, which they themselves created," the Prime Minister emphasized.

According to Nikol Pashinyan, the Republic of Armenia needs a new Constitution, which must have a specific goal, which must express the reality that already exists in the Republic of Armenia today. "That reality is the following: The Republic of Armenia tells its citizens: the homeland and the state are identical, but unlike our entire previous period, our millennia-long history, our message must be very clear, and the substantive expression of that message must be the new Constitution adopted by the free will of the people of Armenia. And that Constitution must say: "Citizen of the Republic of Armenia, you are the state, you are the Republic of Armenia."