nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20200229-214723-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 200229s2020||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20200229-214723-0 doi eng 342 23 Armas-Cardona, Gabriel Author aut Context Matters The Rule of Law and Armenia’s Referendum to Remove Constitutional Court Justices Armas-Cardona, Gabriel Verfassungsblog 2020-02-29 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On February 9th, the Armenian parliament authorized a referendum that would allow the Prime Minister of Armenia, Nikol Pashinyan, to remove seven of the current nine justices from the Constitutional Court. Pashinyan has called the decisions of the Court a “threat to democracy”. On its face, this seems like yet another example of a populist leader trying to use a referendum to increase his power. Examining the context of the situation in Armenia, however, paints a different picture. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Judiciary Referendum Revolution Rule of Law Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/context-matters/ raw object