ArmInfo. The signing of coalitional cooperation memorandum between Armenian Republican Party and ARF Dashnaktsutyun took place in Armenian President's residency. The memorandum will be active by the end of National Assembly of 6th convocation (by 2022 editor's notes).
According to Armenian President press service, RPA and ARFD, signing this memorandum, took on them political responsibility for Government's whole activity. In above mentioned document strategic aims of cooperation are attached within the political coalition, priorities, the activity and arranged order.
From the side of RPA the document was signed by deputy chairman of the party Armen Ashotyan, and from the side of ARFD the representative of Upper Body ARF Dashnaktsutyun Aghvan Vardanyan.
"ARFD and RPA, confirming the commitment to the agreement, signed on February 24 2016 and the responsibility to implement the points attached to it, considering the results of the parliamentary elections conducted on April 2 2017, comparing RPA and ARFD pre electoral programs presented during the elections, paying importance to deepening of systematic and qualified changed released from Dec 2015 by the constitutional reforms and the necessity to make them unchanged, considering the priority to create the authorities of new quality aimed to create in the public trust and optimism to the Government in the future, aimed to provide safe and successful life of the people by means of unifying the efforts of the two parties in the Government- we form the coalition and take political responsibility for all the activity of the Government", the memorandum reads.
Subsequently the document involved strategic goals of cooperation: to provide unity of the right protection safety and the freedom of people, to reform legislative field in accordance to best international experience, to provide transparency of authorities' activities, to promote democratic relations and constructiveness between the political forces, to provide Armenian and Artsakh security, to follow only national interests in foreign policy, to provide the participation of all Armenian nation in state construction deal.
Among the priorities of the coalition are indicated - giving a new impulse to the fight against corruption and the implementation of a personnel policy based on effectiveness of the workforce, the restructuring of the Government, taking into account the effectiveness of its activities, continuing the reform of the electoral system, the review of current social policy and the formation of a social market economy that provides the country's growth, the creation of mechanisms that exclude the possibility of ruthless exploitation of mineral resources and environmental damage. The order of formation of the coalition activity: the ruling coalition regulates the activity of the whole Government, the coalition parties are guided by the principles of mutual respect, consensus and constructivism, positions in the coalition are distributed on a consensus basis, the privilege of choosing the candidacy for the Prime Minister remains for the Republican Party.
The sides of the coalition are obliged to solve the issues on the consensus basis, and in case of disagreements, to submit their positions to the public, at that following the orders of mutual respect. Regardless from the position the sides are obliges to accomplish undertaken decisions in every stage.