MacroInstitutional political structures and their development in Armenia

Demokratizatsiya

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 159-170

  Markarov, Alexander ^a  

^a YEREVAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (Armenia)

Author keywords

Armenia; Constitutional and institutional design; Executive legislative relations; Semipresidentialism

Indexed keywords

CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM; NATIONAL POLITICS; POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT; POLITICAL SYSTEM;

ARMENIA; ASIA; EURASIA; WEST ASIA;

EID: 33845793905     PISSN: 10746846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3200/DEMO.14.2.159-170     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Henrikh Khachatryan, Pervaiia Konstitutsiia Respubliki Armeniia (Yerevan: Nzhar, 2001).
2. The first National Assembly, elected in July 1995, the same day the constitutional referendum took place, had one hundred ninety members.
3. In his classification of regimes at the end of 1997, L. Diamond listed Armenia as a pseudo-democracy. See Developing Democracy toward Consolidation (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999), 280.
4. According to the constitutional law of the time, a president who resigns is succeeded by the president of the National Assembly, and in case that is not possible, then by the prime minister, on an acting basis. Ter-Petrossian's resignation was followed immediately by the resignation of the president of the National Assembly Babken Ararktsian, his close ally. Kocharian, then prime minister, became Acting President.
5. Representatives of the opposition boycotted the activities of the temporary commission, where all parties in Parliament were represented, as well as NA sessions in general, demanding a referendum of confidence on the president is held first. Such a recommendation was made by the president of the Constitutional Court after the disputed presidential elections in 2003, after confirming the Central Electoral Commission's ruling that Kocharian had won.
6. European Commission for Democracy through Law, Interim Opinion on Constitutional Reforms in the Republic of Armenia. Strasbourg, December 6, 2004. Opinion no. 313/2004, adopted at the Sixty-first Plenary Session, Venice, December 3-4, 2004. The opinion was formed on the basis of the following members' comments: Aivars Endzins (Latvia), Kaarlo Tuori (Finland), Owen Masters (United Kingdom), and Bruno Nascimbene (Italy).
7. RFE/RL Newsline, vol. 9, no. 90, May 12, 2005.
8. Venice Commission Press Release, Strasbourg, May 27, 2005.
9. RFE/RL Newsline, December 17, 2005.
10. Previously, at a meeting between the president and representatives of three coalition partners in the government, the date had been set for November 20.
11. "Armenia Gears up for Constitutional Referendum," RFE/RL Newsline, vol. 9, no. 217, November 21, 2005.
12. RFE/RL Newsline, vol. 9, no. 186, October 3, 2005.
13. Later, they argued they had monitored the referendum by having thousands of observers in electoral districts.
14. Armenia is divided into ten administrative units, or marzes, and the capital city. Governors of the marzes are appointed by the prime minister, and the mayor of Yerevan is appointed by the president on the suggestion of the prime minister.