Unfortunately, we were right that this system of government has major shortcomings. Vahagn Khachaturyan, the Minister of High-Tech Industry who is also the ruling party’s probable candidate for the next President of Armenia, told this to reporters Monday.

"Given a circumstance that we [i.e., Armenia] were not an established democratic country yet, our political and state institutions were not working specially. The ‘culprit’ in the non-establishment of the [country’s] state institutions was not the current laws or the Constitution, but the approaches of the ruling power. My views in terms of constitutional amendments have not changed till now," said Khachaturyan.

"In any case, there is a Constitution by which we live. And according to that Constitution, the President has certain powers, and those powers must be exercised. I am a person who respects the law, and, also, I have a principle that I never criticize the current law. I carry out with the requirements of that law. [And] if something does not correspond, I will try to change [it]," the high-tech minister stressed.