The government wants to decide who should lead the church, which means we don't have a legal country. Lilit Galstyan

The government wants to decide who should lead the church, which means we do not have a legal state. Lilit Galstyan, a candidate for the chairmanship of the Standing Committee on Human Rights Protection by the “Armenia” faction, said this in the National Assembly.

“The political majority has adopted a criminal and openly contradictory constitutional course, declaring its intention to force His Holiness to resign and change the order of governance of the autonomous church. When the government decides at all costs who should lead the church, this speaks of everything, but not of a legal state. The overwhelming majority of the hall is well aware of the heavy political assessments that I have made in the context of human rights in Armenia.

Unfortunately, my assessments have not only not changed, but have also turned into a serious threat to the constitutional order of the country in the context of permissiveness, impunity, and deepening autocracy. In 2021-2025, international organizations, various departments, representatives of the political society of the Human Rights Defender, as well as the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe, conducted quite large-scale studies on the state of human rights in Armenia.

These structures have made the most important principles underlying the rule of law and a democratic state the subject of examination: the right to life, torture, personal liberty, detention, fair trial, freedom of assembly, electoral rights, social, educational, health rights and the rights of vulnerable groups. The comparison of studies, like our every day, reveals how far Armenia is from the promised democratic values ​​and how deep the rupture of realities is, "said Galstyan.