Ashotyan finds new coalition agreement between Republican Party of Armenia and Dashnaktsutiun unprecedented
12.05.2017,
11:23
Armen Ashotyan, deputy chairman of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia, finds the new coalition agreement signed Thursday between his party and the Armenian Revolutionary Federation/Dashnaktsutiun unprecedented.
YEREVAN, May 12. /ARKA/. Armen Ashotyan, deputy chairman of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia, finds the new coalition agreement signed Thursday between his party and the Armenian Revolutionary Federation/Dashnaktsutiun unprecedented.
He told journalists after the signing ceremony that nothing like that has been done before since this agreement differs from the former collation agreements between the parties.
“The previous agreement was a pre-election document,” Ashotyan said. “It means its validity was limited, since cooperation prospects depended on the results of the elections and on how many votes the two parties would score.”
In his words there are some new cooperation elements which have never been seen in Armenia.
This time, he said, the sides assumed obligation to be stuck to the principle of consensus in adopting lows deriving from the Constitution.
The parties also don’t rule out political disputes.
The Republican Party of Armenia has been in power since 1999. It has been chaired since 2007 by president Serzh Sargsyan.
ARF - one of the oldest Armenian parties- was part of the ruling coalition from 2003 to 2009. It walked out of the coalition protesting against the signing in October 2009 of the Armenian-Turkish protocols on the normalization of bilateral relations, which were never implemented. In February 2016, the two parties signed a coalition agreement and declared their readiness for long-term cooperation.
In the April 2 parliamentary elections the Republican Party of Armenia got 58 seats in the 105-member National Assembly (55.2%), the Tsarukyan bloc 31 seats and ARF seven.
The opposition YELQ bloc won 9 seats. --0---
He told journalists after the signing ceremony that nothing like that has been done before since this agreement differs from the former collation agreements between the parties.
“The previous agreement was a pre-election document,” Ashotyan said. “It means its validity was limited, since cooperation prospects depended on the results of the elections and on how many votes the two parties would score.”
In his words there are some new cooperation elements which have never been seen in Armenia.
This time, he said, the sides assumed obligation to be stuck to the principle of consensus in adopting lows deriving from the Constitution.
The parties also don’t rule out political disputes.
The Republican Party of Armenia has been in power since 1999. It has been chaired since 2007 by president Serzh Sargsyan.
ARF - one of the oldest Armenian parties- was part of the ruling coalition from 2003 to 2009. It walked out of the coalition protesting against the signing in October 2009 of the Armenian-Turkish protocols on the normalization of bilateral relations, which were never implemented. In February 2016, the two parties signed a coalition agreement and declared their readiness for long-term cooperation.
In the April 2 parliamentary elections the Republican Party of Armenia got 58 seats in the 105-member National Assembly (55.2%), the Tsarukyan bloc 31 seats and ARF seven.
The opposition YELQ bloc won 9 seats. --0---
