The model of the Parliamentary Republic is unsuccessful for Armenia, the ex-president of the country Robert Kocharian is confident. He stated this in an interview with RBC TV channel.
“No President of Armenia had so much permissions as Armenia has. It is just unacceptable,” Cocharyan discontent expresses.
RBC reminds that the Constitution of Armenia has been changed in 2015, with the successor Kocharyan as head of the state of Serge Sargsyan. Since 2018, the post of prime minister is occupied by Nikol Pashinyan.
“talk about the Parliamentary Republic – it’s just rashly. It was, it seems to me, the wrong step. I believe that you need to do at least a step or half a step ago,” Kocharyan believes that he has announced participation in the extraordinary parliamentary elections appointed On June 20. The ex-president of Armenia goes to the elections at the head of the Armenia Block created at the beginning of May, which included Parties “Dashnaktsutyun” and “Reziving Armenia”.
According to Kocharyan, the Prime Minister should not have so many powers as he now has: “Because this power is not balanced almost with nothing. All the checks and balances that should be simply in the state power system”.
change a new order, according to the former head of state, should be careful. “Carefully, but some steps in this direction should be done – just necessary. At least to reduce the personal power of the prime minister. There should be no law enforcement agencies to obey personally the Prime Minister of the country. It’s just a disgrace. It was impossible to do this in any way “He said RBC.