The Initiative of the Conduct of a Referendum on the Issue of Adopting a Constitution or Making Amendments to It. The Appointment of Referendum and its Conduct
1. The right to initiate a referendum on adopting a constitution or amending it belongs to the President and the National Assembly of Republic of Armenia.
2. After approving the draft of the Constitution or the draft of the constitutional amendments by the procedure defined by a law of Republic of Armenia “National Assembly Rules of Procedure” the National Assembly sends the draft to the President of Republic of Armenia in order to submit it to referendum.
3. The President of the Republic may remand the Draft Constitution or the draft of constitutional amendments, approved by the National Assembly, within twenty one days following its submittal back to the National Assembly, with his/her objections and suggestions, requesting a reexamination.
4. The President of the Republic will submit to a referendum within the period prescribed by the National Assembly a draft Constitution or draft constitutional amendments, when they are reintroduced by at least two thirds of the total number of Deputies of the National Assembly.
5. The President of the Republic submits a draft Constitution or draft constitutional amendments introduced by himself/herself to the National Assembly. The National Assembly makes a decision according to the procedure defined by the Law of Republic of Armenia “National Assembly Rules of Procedure” on giving an agreement to submit the draft introduced by the President to referendum.
6. The President of the Republic calls a referendum within 21 days after submitting the draft suggested by the National Assembly with the exception of the case defined in point 4 of this article, or within 7 days after receiving the approval of the National Assembly.
7. The referendum shall be conducted not early than 45 and not later than 60 days after the official publication of the President's decree on conducting referendum.
8. The draft submitted to referendum shall be published in the “Official gazette of Republic of Armenia”, through mass media founded by state bodies not later than 40 days prior to the referendum day for public information.
