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K. RUBINIAN: PARTIES SHOULD BECOME NORMAL OR BE DISSOLVED
Wednesday,
March 20
"There is a multiparty system in Armenia, but there are no parties
as such or else there exist parties of one man with a group of people
united round money," the former member of Armenian National Congress
(HAK) Karapet Rubinian said in Liberty Square today, when discussing
the proposal to shift to a parliamentary system.
He said this problem should be regulated by the law: all parties
should become normal or be dissolved. In Rubinian's words, it is
incomprehensible how such parties will make up a parliament.
K. Rubinian recalled that 20 years ago discussions were already held
on this subject, but stereotypes prevailed at the time that power
cannot be weakened in a country which is at war. "Besides, after the
collapse of the Soviet Union, there was an opinion that all countries
elect their presidents so we should also have one. I also succumbed
to such stereotypes," Rubinian noted.
In the opinion of Rubinian, the time has come to do it. "We have an
elected president who is in favor of shifting to the parliamentary
system of government. We need to conduct a referendum on this reform,"
he said.
19.03.2013, 22:12
Aysor.am
Wednesday,
March 20
"There is a multiparty system in Armenia, but there are no parties
as such or else there exist parties of one man with a group of people
united round money," the former member of Armenian National Congress
(HAK) Karapet Rubinian said in Liberty Square today, when discussing
the proposal to shift to a parliamentary system.
He said this problem should be regulated by the law: all parties
should become normal or be dissolved. In Rubinian's words, it is
incomprehensible how such parties will make up a parliament.
K. Rubinian recalled that 20 years ago discussions were already held
on this subject, but stereotypes prevailed at the time that power
cannot be weakened in a country which is at war. "Besides, after the
collapse of the Soviet Union, there was an opinion that all countries
elect their presidents so we should also have one. I also succumbed
to such stereotypes," Rubinian noted.
In the opinion of Rubinian, the time has come to do it. "We have an
elected president who is in favor of shifting to the parliamentary
system of government. We need to conduct a referendum on this reform,"
he said.
19.03.2013, 22:12
Aysor.am