Holiday that remains unimportant

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Today marks the 16th anniversary of the Constitution. The most important condition for the functioning of any country is having a Constitution, but a much more important precondition is implementing and submitting to what is written in that Constitution.

We Armenians often breach different provisions stated in the Constitution, and perhaps that is the reason why even though today is a non-working day and July 5 is marked in red on calendars, citizens don't feel the air of the celebration when in 1995, on this day the adoption of the Constitution was the largest political event in the country.

At the time, the Constitution passed through political competition and there were alternative versions, but the Constitution that we have today was adopted through a pan-national vote. No matter how much Armenians criticize the Constitution adopted in 1995, that Constitution was the document that helped the Republic of Armenia overcome the political crisis that could have taken place after October 27.

Then, the referendum for constitutional reforms took place on November 27, 2005, which garnered enough votes and was adopted despite the opposition's boycott and the society's indifference.

Armenia's fundamental law has undergone changes once in the past 16 years, but today, through enforcement it turns out that many sub-legislative acts don't correspond to the Constitution and the parliament is compelled to make amendments in the laws and sub-legislative acts to match them with the fundamental law.

As any sovereign state, Armenia also has a Constitution according to which the Republic of Armenia is a sovereign, democratic, social, legal state. Power in the Republic of Armenia belongs to the people, and each citizen of the Republic of Armenia knows to what extent the provisions stated in the Constitution are enforced.