The question raised by the “Citizen’s Decision” social-democratic party about depriving the leader of the “Prosperous Armenia” party Gagik Tsarukyan of his parliamentary mandate found a strong response in the society. Many people noticed the government’s “negotiations” in this demand, as if they want to drive the oligarch into a corner or punish him for showing self-righteous behavior. Few were interested in the argument of the “KO” party that the Constitution forbids a deputy to engage in business. Such “trifles” do not concern the Armenian society so much, over the past decades, everyone got used to the fact that the law is merely a mechanism for settling accounts with recalcitrant figures.

In one way or another, the commotion that arose brought up-to-date the topic of convergence of politics and business, as well as the adoption of a new law on political parties, which had been debated for a long time. Tsarukyan’s party is a vivid expression of the legal amorphism of Armenia’s political and economic spheres. Taking into account the fact that as a result of the “velvet” revolution, almost all large owners were kicked out of the parliament and government, the exclusivity of Tsarukyan and his party reminds of the descendants of the disorganized criminal oligarchic system. It is difficult for an oligarch’s party to enter politics to find any reasonable justification for giving the opportunity. Most likely, it was the result of the faceless policy of the temporary “revolutionary” government formed last year.

Apparently, the issue of post-revolutionary legal regulation of political and economic spheres was not well understood by the provisional government from the beginning. And although the high-ranking officials once voiced some provisions, still a conceptual approach has not been manifested until now. The crisis relationship between the government and big business is a consequence of the lack of such an approach. And if those crises were still manifested in the financial and economic sphere, then this time we are dealing with a possible political crisis.

The members of the “Prosperous Armenia” party not only reject the demands presented to their party leader, but judging by the leaked information, they threaten to resign the parliamentary mandates, thus creating a parliamentary crisis. Apparently, the emphasis is on the current Constitution, according to which one third of the parliamentary seats should belong to the opposition. In the case of the development of the above-mentioned events, the ruling “Civil Agreement” party may face a difficult choice, up to the holding of extraordinary parliamentary elections. The probability of this increased even more, when it became known that the application submitted by the “KO” party to the Prosecutor’s Office was sent to the Special Investigation Service to prepare materials.

But this is not the most important problem for the state. The situation once again proves that post-oligarchic Armenia needs new legislation. The ideas of the debate on the separation of politics and business, the Law on Parties, radical changes in the Electoral Code should become not only the basis for the adoption of new key laws, but also the philosophical anchor for the adoption of the new Constitution. Only the legal harmonization of the functions of the branches of government in the Constitution is not enough.