Yerevan /Mediamax/. Former President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan keeps insisting that “Armenia's current problems have nothing to do with the Constitution, and moreover, with the state governance system”.

He said this in his interview to 2rd.am website.

“One can fail or manage to govern a country both from the cabinets of a President and Prime Minister. There are good and bad examples of functioning of presidential and parliamentary models in the world. However, functioning of a well-established internal party system with effective democracy, factionalism, internal party fight resulting in renovation of the party leadership and strategies is a mandatory condition for a successful parliamentary country.  Do you know any such parties in Armenia? Unfortunately, even the level of political debates in our country is offensively primitive”, said Robert Kocharyan.

“It's naive to suppose that the parliamentary model will automatically lead to democratic and competitive party environment. It will more likely reinforce the phenomenon of patronage which is speeding up and is one of the misfortunes of Armenia”, he added.

Commenting the developments around Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP), Robert Kocharyan said:

“I was on good terms with Gagik Tsarukyan but there was no shadow political agreements on the future formats of cooperation with the party and its leader. There were many statements on this matter both by Prosperous Armenia representatives and by my office. And it's not our fault that not everyone believed in their sincerity. The PAP had its political team which energetically advanced the party's interests. Over the past years, the PAP has demostrated a keen aspiration to take part in parliamentary and presidential elections. It's also obvious that I couldn't cooperate with the format of non-governmental three forces established a few months ago for very clear reasons. And after all, there wouldn't be such a format if the PAP served my interests”.

The second President of Armenia said that “the PAP disintegration, of course, made life easier for the authorities. However, it reinforced the political monopoly in the country either leaving the problems unchanged or even aggravating the remaining problems”.