The Armenian National Assembly will convene an extraordinary session on July 2 at the government's initiative. Among the items on the agenda are proposed amendments to the Electoral Code and changes to the Law on Referendums.

A total of 43 issues will be discussed.

Under the draft legislation, only Armenian citizens who have permanently resided in Armenia for 48 days before parliamentary elections (or 28 days before snap elections) will be eligible to vote in parliamentary elections and referendums. In practice, this means they must have spent more than half of that period in the country.

The authors of the bill amending the Electoral Code are ruling Civil Contract faction lawmakers Alkhas Ghazaryan, Arusyak Manavazyan, Hasmik Hakobyan, and Arusyak Julhakyan.

As justification, they state that ahead of the June 7 parliamentary elections, Armenian citizens began arriving in large numbers from abroad to participate in the vote.

The draft will be considered under an accelerated procedure in both its first and second readings and, if adopted, will enter into force the day after its official publication.

The final results of the June 7 parliamentary elections were published on June 14. Civil Contract received 726,819 votes, or 49.7456%; Strong Armenia won 340,006 votes, or 23.2710%; and the Hayastan Alliance secured 144,983 votes, or 9.9231%. The Prosperous Armenia Party failed to clear the 4% electoral threshold, receiving 58,287 votes, or 3.9893%, and will not enter parliament.

Civil Contract will hold 64 seats, including three allocated to representatives of national minorities. Strong Armenia will have 29 seats, including one held by an Assyrian representative, while the Hayastan Alliance will have 12 seats.