Monday, April 28 2014

Armenia's problem is not the public administration model.  The problem is how Armenia is governed, the Office of the second president of Armenia Robert Kocharyan says.     

"Kocharyan has not considered the advantages and disadvantages of the public administration models. He thinks that both the president and the premier can govern the country wisely or unwisely. For instance, the USA and Canada or France and Germany have absolutely different state forms of government, which demonstrates that the models of parliamentary and presidential republics are not the key factor to gain success", the statement says. 

The statement also points out that the multimillion users of social networks express their viewpoints daily and the idea that one can express a viewpoint about the country's urgent problems only after expressing political goals is a bad case to be described by means of controlled vocabulary. "For Justice Minister Hrayr Tovmasyan's information, the 27th Article of the Constitution implies no preconditions for expressing opinions. Moreover, it is the opinion of the man who played a big role in establishment of Artsakh's statehood and who had successfully ruled Armenia for 10 years. The politician with such a biography has no right to keep silence regardless of his plans for the future", says the statement. 

The statement also says that public opinion polls held for several last years are evidence of less importance of the constitutional reforms, as unemployment, poverty, migration, inflation, low salaries and pensions and corruption are priority problems for the society. "So, it is a mistake to think that Constitutional reforms may resolve all these problems. And the statements by functionaries cannot convince otherwise", - the statement says. It is obvious that even the former government which was always looking for the impartial reasons of all the problems, was not trying to justify them by the shortcomings in the Constitution. 

To recall, there is no vital problem of the country which the present Constitution hinders to settle, the second president of Armenia, Robert Kocharyan, said in an interview with the 2rd.am portal, when touching on the Constitutional reforms initiated by President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan. He emphasized that there is no external pressure in the matter of the constitutional reforms either, conditioned by any lack of conformity between the Constitution and the standard democratic norms.  "Moreover, the public mood has no escalated expectations from the constitutional reforms", - he said. After that, Justice Minister Hrayr Tovmasyan said that Kocharyan's interview is a signal about his intention to come back to the big politics, and if it is really so, Kocharyan should openly tell about it.