If “Heritage” Party’s all proposals on PACE 1609 resolution come true 9 which is practically excluded), each political power will dream of being a minority in the parliament. NA vice speaker, 4 chairmen of NA standing commissions, Ombudsman, Prosecutor General, Chairman of the Control Chamber, “Alik Harutyunyan”, “Amalyan” all the above mentioned “quotas” should have representatives from the opposition. In that case the political forces should try get 5% but have fewer seats in the Parliament not to be the authority.
The reason of contrasts in the proposals first of all is that it is not clear what does the opposition mean. In particular nowadays only Levon Ter-Petrosyan with his team is being considered as an opposition who have no representatives in the parliament. But there are also other forces, for instance Geghamyan or Ramkavars who also consider themselves as oppositionists but they also have no representatives in the NA. Consequently there should be a formal ground for the opposition classification. Consequently there should be a formal ground for the political forces classification. The formulation may be the following: “The groups of people who have seats in the parliament but are not assigned in any position are oppositionists. But the whole problem is that those people will stop being the opposition as soon as they are assigned. According to the classical European standards (RA legislation as well) the Prosecutor should not be either from the authority or oppositions, he should be an anti-political professional and only engaged in detection of crimes.
There are also valuable points in the proposals of “Heritage
Party, in particular improvement of electoral processes and the freedom of press. Perhaps we should not make the authority legitimate and control but just do those improvements. But it doesn’t threaten the current authorities.
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