People expect an economic, not a constitutional reform – Armenian MP

YEREVAN, September 17. /ARKA/. The Armenian society is not cherishing hopes that the constitutional reform will bring about changes, member of Prosperous Armenia parliament faction Elinar Vardanyan said.

Under a decree of the Armenian president of September 4, 2013, a professional commission was set up to elaborate a constitutional reform. The president is expected to sign the reform concept in October. The draft reform package should be submitted within ten months after the concept is approved by the president.

According to the lawmaker, there is no constitutional crisis in the country, and the existing problems and their solutions have nothing to do with the constitution.

The constitutional reform can be dealt with after social problems are solved, Vardanyan said on Tuesday at a conference on the reform, initiated by Heritage party.

The constitutional reform is an artificial agenda, with no sufficient justification, public demand or fundamental reasons, the deputy said.

The lawmaker said the president Serzh Sargsyan, minister-head of the government staff David Harutiunyan, the minister of education and science Armen Ashotyan kept saying not long ago that the parliamentary system is unacceptable for a country at war.

“What has changed during this year-half a year? Has the threat of war disappeared, what has made them to change their views this drastically? I see it is the problem of reproduction of power, which is unacceptable and inadmissible”, the member of the parliament said. –0--