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YEREVAN. – Ruling Republican Party of Armenia National Assembly (RPA NA) Faction member and NA ex-Speaker Samvel Nikoyan accepts that the country’s authorities are super-centralized, and the key decisions are made at the RPA headquarters.

Nikoyan stressed, at a press conference on Thursday, that this super-centralized state of the authorities is linked to the current Constitution.

“Now, we [i.e. the RPA] understand that the demand of the political arena and the opposition is public, and therefore we are doing what they demand,” he said, in particular.

In the RPA MP’s words, they realize that there are elements of a single-party state in Armenia, and therefore they are trying to resolve this matter.

Vice chairman of the board of the opposition Heritage Party, Armen Martirosyan, for his part, noted that they are in favor of a parliamentary system, but against a single-party system.

“Today, we [i.e. Armenia] are in a situation when we live in a one-party [i.e. the RPA] country, and the one-party system is legitimized by the new Constitution [being proposed],” Martirosyan specifically said.

The referendum on Armenia’s draft constitutional amendments is slated for December 6.

Pursuant to the new draft Constitution, the country will make a transition from a semi-presidential to a parliamentary system of governance, and conduct completely proportional parliamentary elections.

The opponents of the proposed constitutional amendments, however, consider them to be primarily the authorities’ attempt to hang on to power.

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