YEREVAN. – The current Constitution of Armenia is basically more parliamentary than presidential; the presidential powers are quite limited in terms of impact on the country’s politics.

National Assembly former Speaker Tigran Torosyan stated the aforementioned at a conference on Monday.

Reflecting on the query as to whether there has been a need to implement constitutional reforms in Armenia, Torosyan recalled that major respective changes were implemented in 2005.

“But, unfortunately, these reforms were not adopted until the end,” he added. 

As per the former head of the parliament, the political parties in Armenia do not realize that the primary means of coming to power are the parliamentary, and not the presidential, elections.  

“A president, who does not have a parliamentary majority, will have a very limited powers, and he cannot have a substantial impact on the country’s politics.

“[But] the [political] parties not always realize the importance of the parliament, or the parliamentary elections, and they speak about passing to a parliamentary system of governance,” Tigran Torosyan specifically noted.