“PM doesn’t differentiate between types of jokes”
Today, on Constitution Day, "Heritage" Party MP Stepan Safaryan has mixed feelings.
"I remember how the Constitution was adopted in 1995 and how it underwent reforms through a referendum organized by "phantoms" in 2005. "Heritage" Party held protests for three days at Freedom Square," Mr. Safaryan told "A1+" today.
"Heritage" finds that the country needs a new Constitution to undertake real reforms.
During its third congress in 2005, "Heritage" Party confirmed an extensive program, which has been in circulation to this day.
"There is a huge place for constitutional reforms in that program. The legislative and executive branches of government are still dependent. Instead of seeing the RA President as a warrant for the other branches of government, we see a dictator."
Mr. Safaryan is in favor of the transition to a parliamentary system.
Stepan Safaryan fully shares constitutional expert Vardan Poghosyan's statement that the text of the Constitution doesn't correspond to the reality.
According to him, regardless of the legal-judicial reforms, nothing will change as long as the RA President continues to appoint judges.
Safaryan says the defects of the society that are grounded in the Constitution can't be eradicated and says one of the defects is the formulation regarding snap elections in the RA Constitution. "In regard to snap elections, the Constitution lays down foundations that formally don't exist in Armenia. The decision for snap elections can only be taken based on the society's moods."
Stepan Safaryan also touched upon Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan's latest interview. Speaking of emigration, the Prime Minister had said that the people leaving Armenia make up the critical mass that would have started a revolution if they stayed.
"It is inadmissible for a high-ranking state official not to differentiate between the types of jokes. Even if that was a joke, it fell in line with the reality. Instead of giving an explanation, he says emigration is good for the government to keep power. In another country, such a statement would be followed by the government's resignation, but this is Armenia."
According to Stepan Safaryan, nihilism and cynicism have turned into a way of describing the system of administration in Armenia.
