ARMENIAN AUTHORITIES DISCUSS POSSIBILITY OF CONSTITUTION CHANGING AND TRANSITION TO PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT
by Ashot Safaryan
ARMINFO
Wednesday, August 28, 12:03
The authorities of Armenia have started discussions of the possibility
of the Constitution changing. It is not ruled out that as a result of
these discussions, the ruling Republican Party of Armenia will offer
transition to the parliamentary system of government, chairman of the
parliamentary commission for state and legal issues, a member of the
RPA executive body, David Harutyunyan, told Radio Liberty.
“We have been discussing the issue for a long period of time”, –
Harutyunyan said and added that not all the points of the Constitution
adopted in 2005 are satisfactory today.
“We have to watch the problem from a different perspective: which of
the systems is more effective for Armenia in the created geo-political
and domestic political situation”, – he said.
He also added that a specific option has not yet been discussed in the
RPA. “We shall start the discussion when suggestions are voiced. I
don’t rule out the discussion of the above mentioned option, as
well as any other option”, – Harutyunyan said. He thinks that the
discussions will last for several months till formation of a certain
conception which will “appear by the end of the current year”. He did
not rule out that in case of transition to the parliamentary system of
government, the RPA proportional list may be headed by the incumbent
President Serzh Sargsyan during the next parliamentary election,
and if the RPA wins, Sargsyan may be elected the prime minister.
To recall, the opposition forces said about the necessity of transition
to the parliamentary system of government many times. At the end
of 2012, an “alternative” Prosperous Armenia Party initiated the
discussion of this issue together with the parliamentary opposition,
but the parties did not manage to reach consensus.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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