Armenia needs constitutional reforms, Heritage says

 May 6, 2011 - 14:33 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - Members of opposition Heritage parliamentary group Stepan Safaryan and Zaruhi Postanjyan believe that Armenia needs constitutional reforms.

“The reforms are needed to separate the three branches of power and create counterbalances for the executive power, specifically, to ensure an independent judicial system and wider powers of the legislative power,” Postanjyan told a press conference in Yerevan.

Safaryan noted for his part that the amendments to the Armenian Constitution have not secured wider powers for the parliament, though they were introduced to this end.

“Unfortunately, it is not the National Assembly, which decides on the government’s composition, while the government decides how the parliament should behave and who will join it,” he said.

Heritage representatives think that the reforms can be implemented through a constitutional referendum.