The Anti-Corruption Policy Council meeting was held under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, which was also attended by representatives of non-governmental organizations that are members of the council, invited participants of the Anti-Corruption Policy Council.

Within the framework of the agenda, the Minister of Justice, member of the Anti-Corruption Policy Council Srbuhi Galyan presented the guidelines on restrictions on pre-election campaigning. Referring to the structure of the guidelines, details were presented on the rules for participation in pre-election campaigning by officials and candidates, legal liability measures and other functions. Reference was made to the party financing system, ensuring accountability and transparency of parties, legal liability measures, mechanisms for good conduct in parties and other issues.

The drafts of the Constitutional Law "On Amendments and Addenda to the Constitutional Law "On Political Parties" and related laws and the proposed amendments to them were discussed.

The participants of the Council meeting made their observations and suggestions.

Prime Minister Pashinyan noted that the task should be not to establish rules as traps, but rules that will help parties operate within the legal framework. “I think that what we are discussing now concerns the scope and field of good conduct of parties, and in the future, amendments should be made to the “Law on Parties”, the law and regulations should stipulate that there should be bodies or officials in parties who are responsible for dealing with this,” said Nikol Pashinyan. The Prime Minister added that in the process of developing anti-corruption policies, they came to the conclusion that there should be officials in state government bodies who will be responsible for ethics and good conduct. “Why did we do this? Because, after all, everyone in state government bodies is busy with their own affairs, and we remember about the rule of good conduct only when a violation is recorded. The same thing happens in parties. My suggestion is to think about making such changes to the law that the party's charter stipulates that the party must have a person or body that will deal with the party's code of conduct, and in this regard, the Ministry of Justice and the Corruption Prevention Commission should be partners," the Prime Minister emphasized.

According to Nikol Pashinyan, their task is not to have parties constantly commit violations, and state bodies fine them, initiate cases. “Our task is to contribute to parties carrying out their activities in the most civilized way possible, which does not always work out, and I assure you that it is not always out of malice that parties want to commit violations,” the Prime Minister noted, also emphasizing the importance of organizing appropriate awareness-raising campaign in the above-mentioned directions.