The Parliament of Armenia is not one of our authorized state structures, and perhaps nobody will argue with this. The reasons are numerous. One of them is the dualism of the NA functions. On the one hand the parliament should draft the legislation of the country; people who have deep knowledge in legislation can do that. On the other hand theoretically it is right that that the NA is a political body and the parties voted by the people should have debates there.
There is no need to note once more that the Parliament of Armenia is far from that dualism. The National Assembly hasn't drafted any legislation since 1995; it simply confirms the texts sent by the executive body. Besides the current parliamentary forces have no ideology and can't debate round any ideological problem. And finally this National Assembly is too far from the people since the opposition has very symbolic presence there.
And to say that increasing the number of NA standing committees will raise the NA effectiveness, means to fool the whole Armenian population. Fictive assignments in the fictive Parliament are like a game at the expense of tax payers since the payment for new offices, secretaries, and drivers will be allocated from the state budget.
Practically there are not so many lawmakers in our parliament who are cable to work in 12 standing committees so their activities will be equal to nothing.
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