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Armenia needs new government model to ensure checks and balances - opinion
11:36 * 13.09.14
In an interview with Tert.am, a former prime minister of Armenia,
Khosrov Harutyunyan, stressed the importance of adopting the
parliamentary government model in the country, considering it an
effective tool of ensuring appropriate checks and balances.
The politician, who now represents the ruling Republican faction in
parliament, said he does not expect the proposed reform alone to rule
out the authorities' further chances of reproduction unless the
mechanisms in question are properly enforced to eliminate the existing
divide between the governing and non-governing political forces.
Harutyunyan brought the example of Finland where he said the
Social-Democrats were in power for 36 years, without anyone ever
thinking that such a lengthy period of rule was a political monopoly.
"And that's because there are serious tools of checks and balances. So
that's what we have to think about now given that the political divide
is very often between the political majority and minority rather than
the executive and the legislative authorities. Whenever the Government
forms the political majority, it becomes the same team. So that's why
it is now important to look for the restraint mechanisms among the
majority and minority [forces] in parliament," he explained.
Armenian News - Tert.am
11:36 * 13.09.14
In an interview with Tert.am, a former prime minister of Armenia,
Khosrov Harutyunyan, stressed the importance of adopting the
parliamentary government model in the country, considering it an
effective tool of ensuring appropriate checks and balances.
The politician, who now represents the ruling Republican faction in
parliament, said he does not expect the proposed reform alone to rule
out the authorities' further chances of reproduction unless the
mechanisms in question are properly enforced to eliminate the existing
divide between the governing and non-governing political forces.
Harutyunyan brought the example of Finland where he said the
Social-Democrats were in power for 36 years, without anyone ever
thinking that such a lengthy period of rule was a political monopoly.
"And that's because there are serious tools of checks and balances. So
that's what we have to think about now given that the political divide
is very often between the political majority and minority rather than
the executive and the legislative authorities. Whenever the Government
forms the political majority, it becomes the same team. So that's why
it is now important to look for the restraint mechanisms among the
majority and minority [forces] in parliament," he explained.
Armenian News - Tert.am