Political System of Armenia Հայաստանի պետական համակարգ | |
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Polity type | Unitary parliamentary republic |
Constitution | Constitution of Armenia |
Legislative branch | |
Name | National Assembly |
Type | Unicameral |
Meeting place | National Assembly Building |
Presiding officer | Alen Simonyan, President of the National Assembly |
Executive branch | |
Head of state | |
Title | President |
Currently | Vahagn Khachaturyan |
Appointer | National Assembly |
Head of government | |
Title | Prime Minister |
Currently | Nikol Pashinyan |
Appointer | President |
Cabinet | |
Name | Government of Armenia |
Current cabinet | Pashinyan government |
Leader | Prime Minister |
Appointer | President |
Headquarters | Government House |
Ministries | 12 |
Judicial branch | |
Name | Judiciary of Armenia |
Constitutional Court of Armenia | |
Chief judge | Hrayr Tovmasyan |
Seat | Yerevan |
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The politics of Armenia take place in the framework of the parliamentary representative democratic republic of Armenia, whereby the president of Armenia is the head of state and the prime minister of Armenia the head of government, and of a multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the president and the Government. Legislative power is vested in both the Government and Parliament.[1][2][3]
Table 1 shows that dissolution power as a presidential initiative is rare in the contemporary president-parliamentary systems. In fact, only in Armenia may the president dissolve (once per year) without a trigger (e.g. assembly failure to invest a government).
Markarov discusses the formation and development of the semi-presidential system in Armenia since its foundation in 1991. The author identifies and compares the formal powers of the president, prime minister, and parliament under the 1995 Constitution as well as the amendments introduced through the Constitutional referendum in 2005. Markarov argues that the highly presidentialized semi-presidential system that was introduced in the early 1990s gradually evolved into a Constitutionally more balanced structure. However, in practice, the president has remained dominant and backed by a presidential majority; the president has thus been able to set the policy agenda and implement his preferred policy.
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