PRIME MINISTER’S IS A MATTER OF VOTING
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Lragir.am
09 June 06

An opportunity of transition from personal to institutional governance
has occurred in Armenia, stated Member of Parliament Shavarsh
Kocharyan June 9. According to him, this opportunity emanates from
the new constitution. However it is just a half-step, says Shavarsh
Kocharyan. According to him, first it is necessary to use this
opportunity.

`Surprisingly we have become pessimistic in a time when we need tomake
efforts instead of waiting until the government, which was made to
take this half-set, the Constitutional reform, to do it,’ says
Shavarsh Kocharyan. He says the public, NGOs and the opposition should
seek for using this opportunity.

Shavarsh Kocharyan says the increasing influence of the office of the
prime minister on the levers of the executive is an expression of this
opportunity. The member of parliament thinks it is better if the
prime minister possesses the majority of levers than the president.

`Several cases of impeachment have been reported in the world. It is
impossible, impossible to impeach the president constitutionally. And
the question of the prime minister is a matter of voting.’