Thursday, February 13 2020 11:05

ArmInfo. In the context of the ongoing struggle of various branches of power in Armenia, two points should be paid special attention. A similar opinion was  expressed by ArmInfo, leading researcher at the Center for  Euro-Atlantic Security of the Institute for International Studies at  MGIMO, Sergey Markedonov.

"The first is the political style of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.  In foreign policy, his pragmatism in relations with all partners has  already been sufficiently covered. However, in the internal political  processes, many still perceive the prime minister as the continuation  of the revolutionary methods of April 2018. Meanwhile, Pashinyan is  clearly demonstrates that revolutionary methods are not an end in  itself for him. It cost him nothing to apply these methods in order  to remove the previous parliament and even the still existing  Constitutional Court in order to avoid "popular anger", etc. " .

However, Pashinyan, according to Markedonov, prefers to work in the  domestic political arena through the use of a mixture of populism and  legalism. The latter is manifested in negotiations from a position of  strength. The methodology of the Armenian prime minister, according  to analysts, is manifested in the absence of any rush in the issue of  repealing the 2015 Constitution, adopted by Serzh Sargsyan with the  great participation of Hrayr Tovmasyan.

According to his assessments, Pashinyan is well aware of the  impossibility of hacking the COP on the shoulder, which will lead to  a legal vacuum and the threat of the destruction of statehood by the  privatization of power by various "activists". That is why, the prime  minister brought the need to replace the composition of the  Constitutional Court to a referendum, evading its resolution by  removing unwanted opponents from there.

On April 5, a referendum on amendments to the Constitution will be  held in Armenia. Citizens must answer the question of retaining or  terminating the powers of its chairman and the majority of judges who  took office even under the previous government.

And of course, according to his estimates, it should be remembered  that the "velvet revolution" did not abolish the Constitution of the  "old regime". Moreover, Pashinyan was twice approved by the Prime  Minister, and My Step received the parliamentary majority precisely  in accordance with its articles. And parliament, in turn, pushed  another constitutional reform.

"And no matter who says" direct democracy "and" people's power ", it  is impossible to announce the election of the head of the  Constitutional Court by analogy with the highest legislative power.  And it is the April referendum, if successful, that will end the  two-year coexistence of the new executive and the old judicial  branches "- summed up Markedonov.