Acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan spoke about the political changes that have taken place in our country over the past three years during a special session of the Parliament.
“Recently, you adopted the new ‘Law on Parties’, which changed the meaning of party activities, these changes are of revolutionary significance. Imagine, Armenia’s legislation stipulates that in case of a regular parliamentary election, the party’s proportional lists are formed by a closed, secret ballot by a conference or assembly. In other words, we have created institutional conditions with this, so that the parties are a party and not a property,” Pashinyan said, calling it an institutional change of a turning point significance.
The most serious political and institutional change is the elections of the community council and the mayor, which must be held by the proportional electoral system, i.e. by party lists.
“The opposition in Armenia has dreamed of such changes for decades, but such changes have not taken place. But today it is a fact, of course, no one will talk about it, because what we already have is considered to be how it should be,” said the acting prime minister.
After all, for the first time in Armenia, the parliamentary elections will be held in full proportional system, Pashinyan said.
“And the most important change: there are a lot of polls now when citizens are asked which political force they will vote for. But one or several of our collegues drew our attention to a very important fact. And that fact is the following: citizens can say that they choose the opposition, this party, the government, but the citizens have no other question any more, in the end, who decides who will win the elections. This is a turning point. Five years ago, the citizen used to say, well, what we decide, it does not matter how we vote, they will write ... Now the citizen of Armenia knows that he/she decides. And this was the biggest mission of our political team. Now, if we, as a government, want to falsify the election results, we cannot do that, because no one, first, within our team, and secondly, the public will not allow the falsification of the election results,” Pashinyan said.
