Union of Financiers of Armenia Considers Necessary Const. Reform

[Nalbandian Albert]

UNION OF FINANCIERS OF ARMENIA CONSIDERS IT NECESSARY TO
CONSTITUTIONALLY FIX POLITICAL INDEPENDENCE OF COMMUNITIES

YEREVAN, APRIL 11, NOYAN TAPAN. The April 8 seminar organized by the
Union of Financiers of Armenia was dedicated to the discussion of the
constitutional reforms concerning local self-government bodies.

According to Mkrtich Gimishian, Chairman of the Union of Financiers of
Armenia, these reforms are to provide the solution of 3 main problems
- political independence of communities, financial-technical
independence and accuracy of inter-relations between state government
and local self-government. At the same time M.Gimishian mentioned that
the current Constitution provides a number of guarantees of
implementation of the local self-government, including exact
differentiation of local self-government bodies and independence from
state government, the right of communities to dispose of their
property, right to their own budget and right to independent solution
of communal problems. According to him, these provisions are not only
to be preserved but to be developed in the new Constitution. And as
for the suggested provision, according to which regional administration
heads get a right to deprive communal heads of their authorities,
M.Gimishian considered it inadmissible. M.Gimishian considered it
necessary to constitutionally fix the authorities of communities and
minimal frames of financial resources, political independence of
communities, excluding the warrant of expressing distrust to community
heads by the government, to provide the judicial protectability of
communities making them a subject of the right of applying to to the
Constitutional Court.