Chief of Staff of Armenia’s Constitutional Court Edgar Ghazaryan will not take part in a referendum on the constitutional changes.

He took to Facebook on Tuesday to urge his friends and relative to boycott the constitutional referendum as well, denouncing it as a “mockery”.

“Following Armenia’s domestic developments, the emergence of fake agendas and empty issues, unconstitutional and illegal processes, I have decided for the first time in my life not to take part in this mockery organized under the name of a referendum on April 5, 2020,” he wrote.

“I don’t want to be connected in any way to the great illegality that the incumbent authorities want to impose on our people, once again abusing their noble motives and feelings.

“I call on all my friends and relatives not to take it for granted, ignore the fake agenda, deal with your own issues and in no way become part of this intrigue,” the post read. 

The constitutional changes proposed by deputies of the ruling My Step bloc would dismiss Constitutional Court Chairman Hrayr Tovmasyan and the judges of Armenia’s highest court elected prior to April 9, 2018.