How many signatures are required to start the formal decision making stage of a direct democracy mechanism?

Armenia

Armenia

Answer
  • Citizens' Initiative - fixed number
  • Agenda Initiative - fixed number
Source

Armenia, Constitution 2015, accessed 5 September 2022

Article 109. Legislative Initiative

6. At least fifty thousand citizens having the right of suffrage shall be entitled to propose, upon popular initiative, a draft law to the National Assembly.

Article 204. Referendum on the Draft Law Submitted Upon Popular Initiative

1. If the National Assembly rejects the adoption of the draft law submitted under the procedure prescribed by part 6 of Article 109 of the Constitution, then the draft shall be put to referendum where an additional three hundred thousand citizens having the right of suffrage join the initiative of adopting the draft law, within a period of sixty days following the rejection, and where the Constitutional Court recognizes the given draft as complying with the Constitution. The Central Electoral Commission shall approve the validity of the signatures of the participants of the popular initiative. [...]

Comment

50,000 signatures for Agenda Initiative; 300,000 signatures for Citizens' Initiative.

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