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| 14:43:16 | 25-06-2005 | Politics |
PREMIER- EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF GOVERNMENT
According to the coalition’s draft adopted within the process of
constitutional reform the Prime Minister is rather helpless and can be
defined as the executive director of the government. The coalition’s draft
constitutional amendments has nothing in common with the semi-presidential
government system, this project is typical for the president one. `The most
important question is whether the parliament is empowered to form the
government or not? Besides, whether the President has the right to dismiss
the Prime Minister without the consent of the parliament? If these two
components are absent, the draft proves to be not appropriate to the
semi-presidential government system’, Justice faction secretary Victor
Dallakyan stated.
According to the logic of the semi-presidential government system the
parliament should be entitled to form the government. The opposition has
made the following proposal: once the opposition proposes a nominee for the
post of the Prime Minister, if the parliament does not approve it, the
initiative passes to the National Assembly. However, the coalition’s draft
calls for the following principle: the President has the right to propose
the Prime Minister twice, if the parliament does not ratify it, the
President dissolves the parliament.
`If the President proposes a nominee twice and every time the candidature is
rejected the President dissolves the parliament he uses all the instruments
at hand to form the government, which will be useful for him’, Victor
Dallakyan says. In his opinion, the items, according to which the President
appoints this or that parliament member by the presentation of the Prime
Minister are symbolic, since the President himself appoints or dismissed the
Prime Minister, thus the latter is only a mechanism in the President’s
hands. Consequently, according to the coalition’s draft the government and
the Prime Minister is subordinate to the one, who appoints them, that is to
the President. To note, the semi-presidential system supposes that the
President cannot dismiss the Prime Minister, who enjoys the support of the
parliamentary majority.
For Ramkavar Azatakan extra-parliamentary party there is no particular
difference who appoints the Premier, responsibility is the most important
factor. Party leader Harutyun Harutyunyan noted, `Is we follow the principle
of power division, it is even natural if the President appoint the Prime
Minister. Thus he undertakes the responsibility for the activities of the
government.’
Diana Markosyan