ArmInfo.Changes to the Law on Parties should be accompanied by amendments to the Constitution, the Electoral Code, the Law regulating the activities of the National Assembly, and other legal acts. Secretary of the Citizen's Decision party, economist Suren Sahakyan, expressed a similar opinion ArmInfo.
"Only in this case, according to our ideas, it will be possible to get a future model of the country's governance system. If the initiators of the adoption of these amendments have this model in mind, it needs to be made public. Only in this case it will be possible to assess whether the proposed changes will lead to the formation of a new management system. In the absence of such a model, today we are participating in a process that has very dubious prospects, "he said.
Since October 18, hearings on the constitutional law "On Parties" have been held at the National Assembly of Armenia. The initiator of the hearings was the "My Step" bloc.
According to Sahakyan, his party expects from the hearings and the process of reforming the law "On Parties", in general, such changes that will make the existence of current party and political system impossible, laying the ground for creating and strengthening new systems. According to his estimates, only when the expected changes and, most importantly, the expected result from these changes are presented it will become clear whether the planned changes will justify these expectations.
"It is clear that the existing tools for financing parties and exercising control over them in Armenia are very far from ideal. Moreover, there are no ideal regulations and laws, therefore, a loophole can be found in any law. In this light, only political will is needed to control party financing" , he considers.
In this case, financial regulation, according to Sahakyan, implies the creation of conditions in which the parties of the oligarchs and parties that are new, not rich, but are based on ideology, will receive equal opportunities for political activity. The politician is convinced that if real, effective amendments are adopted, it will become possible to level the money factor in favor of conveying political ideas to citizens.