In her political analysis Armine Avetyan dwells on the issue of the state budget discussions in the NA and the faults they have. As the ARF member Artsvik Minasyan stated the state budget bill can pass in the NA only if there are 66 “for” votes, as the Constitution dictates. There was an argument about this point by Minasyan, who added that initially the state budget project should have the 66 “for” votes so as later to become a bill to be discussed otherwise an absurd happens. Minasyan urged the NA to take this matter into a particular consideration because it may bring to the unconstitutional decisions.
As Avetyan clarifies, the explanation to such a message to the government is clear. The Republican party manages to get the minimum votes’ range to pass certain bills and the opposition boycotting the bills is quite probable. In case the multimember PAP along with other opposition political fractions decides to hinder the bill passing process by the Republican party, this will be viewed as a distrust message to the incumbent government.
The political analyst concludes with her statement that the political developments in the country before the presidential elections will be interesting in the sense that the PAP and the ARF have come to a conclusion that a parliamentary system of governance is the solution to the country’s current state and blame the semi-presidential system for the political system malfunctioning not referring to the head of the state. Besides in order to present a bill stating the distrust against the government, the Constitution of the RA states the signature of one third of the overall MPs’ is enough and the PAP along with other opposition parties is fully capable of doing it. Avetyan sees this as an unprecedented political step probable to happen in Armenia.
