Armenia needs to return to semi-presidential form of government -  Aram Manukyan

ArmInfo. Armenia needs to return to a semi-presidential form of government. Deputy Chairman of  the Armenian National Congress party Aram Manukyan stated  on February 29 at discussions organized by the Hayaqve initiative.

According to him, unlike the parliamentary system of government, the  semi-presidential form has one, but very significant advantage. It is  about another people's mandate. This makes it possible to ensure the  use of mutual mechanisms of containment and full separation of all  branches of power.

Manukyan noted that, despite the existence of disagreements with the  politicians participating in the discussions, he intends to support  the movement for the defense of the Declaration of Independence and  Armenian statehood Statehood. "If someone decided that something  should be removed from there, they should know that they are  violating our honor, because that declaration is the birth  certificate of the country, which cannot be changed," the politician  said.

Manukyan emphasized that no one has the right to challenge the birth  of the country with legal acts.  Moreover, throughout recent history,  not a single politician or party, with the exception of the current  leadership, has opposed this document.

On January 19, at the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Armenia,  Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan stated that  Armenia needs a new Constitution that will make the Republic of  Armenia more viable in the new geopolitical conditions. The prime  minister's opponents point out that the initiative comes from Baku,  mainly with the goal of eliminating from the Constitution references  to the Declaration of Independence, which contains reference to the  resolution on the reunification of the Armenian SSR and  Nagorno-Karabakh. The 11th paragraph of the Declaration of  Independence, which states that the Republic of Armenia supports  international recognition of the Armenian Genocide of 1915 in Ottoman  Turkey, is also considered problematic.