IN GRIGOR HAROUTIUNIAN’S WORDS, NEWLY ELECTED PARLIAMENT IS NOT ABLE
TO CONTROL EXECUTIVE POWER’S ACTIVITY TODAY
YEREVAN, JUNE 4, NOYAN TAPAN. In the country where the parliament makes
political decisions by pressing the button by order, the institution of
parliamentarianism cannot become a couterbalance to the executive
power. Grigor Haroutiunian, Secretary of People’s Party of Armenia,
expressed such opinion at the June 4 discussion on the subject "The
Past and Present of Parliamentarianism in Armenia." He said that
democratic principles are violated from the very start, during the
elections. The parliament and the executive power, in the words of the
former RA MP, today are formed in Armenia by one another and the
control function of NA has become just impossible under these
conditions.
In the opinion of another participant of discussion, Chairman of
Constitutional Law Union Hrant Khachatrian, hundreds of years ago
parliamentarianism started to the formed with a single goal: to control
the work of another power wings. And in the current Armenian reality,
as CLU Chairman emphasized, the newly elected NA will lack the notion
of "parliament" in its classical sense. H. Khachatrian considers that
the main reason of this is that the "winning" political forces play the
game "you are the producer of yourself": they themselves decide whom to
give portfolios and why." As he affirmed, if NA elections were not
falsified, PPA, Nor Zhamanakner, Hanrapetutiun parties and Impeachment
bloc could receive nearly 8% votes each.
As H. Khachatrian forecast, the political figure who in the preelection
period will announce about the necessity to hold special parliamentary
elections will succeed in the 2008 presidential elections.