The morning session carried the programme's floor debut, 4 days after the cabinet approved it and started the constitutional clock for the assembly. Pashinyan framed the June mandate as a vote to stop pursuing history: "the Karabakh conflict is a trap, and without confronting this fact, we cannot have a truly independent state".
One chamber heard two different countries described.
Opposition benches answered in kind. Anna Grigoryan of the Hayastan faction said the programme's "entire content will be a disgrace", a text about "dissolving the Third Republic"; her colleague Ishkhan Saghatelyan said it "definitely does not stem from" Armenia's interests. Gegham Manukyan, Edgar Ghazaryan and Narek Karapetyan took the floor after them.
No vote date is set. The mechanics give the majority no suspense, and the argument was never about arithmetic. One chamber heard two different countries described.
Outside the chamber sits the programme's heaviest single item. The Constitutional Court takes up the TRIPP ratification on 15 September in written procedure, and the assembly cannot touch that treaty before the court has spoken. The five-year text now runs on two clocks. One political, one judicial.