False Agenda: Let's Put the Current Constitution Into Practice, Rather Than Again Changing It

12:20, July 14, 2012

In its 2007 presidential campaign platform, the Republican Party stated that it would establish a legal government by implementing the constitutional amendments and judicial reforms accepted in 2005.

However, in the presidential elections that followed and the days after, such glaring human rights violation occurred the like of which Armenia had never seen before.

Today, the European Court of Human Rights is overturning the verdicts of "reformed" Armenian courts with such ease to reveal the bankruptcy of the Armenian justice system.

The 2005 Constitutional reforms were supposed to have perfected the balancing mechanism among the three branches of the government, by drastically decreasing the powers of the presidency in favour of the legislature and the government apparatus.  Read more... (873 words)

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