Fact. The ‘Super Prime Ministerial’ System Benefits Pashinyan

The newspaper ‘Fact’ reports: According to the strategy for judicial and legal reforms in Armenia from 2019 to 2023 approved by the executive, it is planned to create a professional commission for constitutional reforms in the first quarter of 2020 to initiate constitutional amendments. This commission will discuss the issue of implementing constitutional reforms and will present a draft of constitutional changes.

The discussion of the Prime Minister's powers by the constitutional commission is interesting in the context that Nikol Pashinyan has repeatedly stated that excessive powers are concentrated in the hands of the prime minister and that the ‘super prime ministerial’ system should gradually be transformed into a parliamentary system.

However, as time has shown, the ‘super prime ministerial’ system, according to his own words, benefits Pashinyan. If he was truly concerned about the excessive concentration of powers in the hands of the prime minister, the government could have mentioned in the judicial and legal reform strategy a reduction of the executive leader's powers, which is not addressed.

Details are in today’s issue of the newspaper.