“Hraparak”: Constitutional Changes?
Armenian Press
After the presidential elections of 2013, apparently in Armenia constitutional amendments and referendum will be initiated to replace presidential governance by parliamentary governance.
At the same time, this is one of the unique cases when approaches of the second and the third presidents coincide. Motivations differ. The second president, according to sources close to him, won’t be nominated in 2013, but he’ll do his best to gather enough votes to be able to solve Prime Minister’s issue, which didn’t succeed in parliamentary elections. Constitutional changes will give opportunity to the “newly-elected” Prime Minister smoothly, almost mechanically solve the issue of ruling the country in 2018, being “appointed” Prime Minister in a parliamentary country.
This is why Kocharyan is in political life-or-death, but in a very hidden struggle for 2013, and of constitutional changes speaks not PAP but ARF. At the same time, Russia has also its “share” in this project, the latter also wants that Armenia turned to parliamentary governance, and it’ll solve Prime Minister’s issue without “consulting” the West. Serzh Sargsyan in his turn has his calculations. He tries to make PAP a component of the game. At the days of entering coalition he informed Gagik Tsarukyan about coming constitutional changes, saying that at that time Tsarukyan could become a Prime Minister. They say, Tsarukyan was made to refuse that offer. Although, according to the well known sources the issue is still open.


















































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