Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Dashnaks Insist On Radical Constitutional Change

The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) will throw its weight behind President Serzh Sarkisian's controversial constitutional reform only if it envisages Armenia's transformation into a parliamentary republic, a leader of the opposition party said on Tuesday.

Artsvik Minasian said Dashnaktsutyun has already submitted a list of 28 concrete proposals which it believes should be incorporated into a package of draft constitutional amendments that are expected to be put on a referendum next year. He singled out a switch from the existing presidential to the parliamentary system of governance.

"If our proposals are not accepted or if the system of governance doesn't change, if our basic approaches are … not incorporated into the final version [of constitutional amendments,] we will consider such changes meaningless, illogical and unsustainable," Minasian told RFE/RL's Armenian service (Azatutyun.am).

Armenian News

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