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Members and supporters of the opposition resistance movement left a large model of the Constitution in chains and pens outside the Constitutional Court of Armenia while protesting near the top court building on July 5 marking Constitution Day.

"We are leaving pens here which are a symbol of the violation of constitutionalism,” ARF activist Sevak Nazaryan announced, recalling that Hrayr Tovmasyan was ousted as the top court chairman after the story of an “expensive pen” which he allegedly gifted Nikol Pashinyan.

Addressing the protest, MP Aram Vardevanyan accused the incumbent authorities of ignoring and violating the Constitution.

“They have no idea what the Constitution is and they don't even want to know it," Vardevanyan said, adding it is possible to defend the Constitution only by fighting.

The opposition protesters next marched to the presidential palace and left cucumbers outside it.

"Although the president should be engaged in protecting the Constitution, he is the representative of vegetable crops in Armenia, as he does nothing and carries out the orders of one person. We have brought him this vegetable as a symbol of his inaction," Nazaryan noted.

The demonstrators threw cucumbers on the ground and marched to the Armenian parliament.