Մանուկյան Մարտին 019
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DIALECTICS OF IMPLEMENTING
THE PRINCIPLE OF SEPARATION OF POWERS
Manukyan Martin
Monitoring Officer of the Public Defender Office
of the Chamber of Advocates of the Republic of Armenia,
Lecturer of the Law Department
of the Yerevan "Gladzor" University,
Candidate of Legal Sciences
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Summary։ Separation of powers is not an end in itself. It is a means by which it becomes possible to ensure the effective functioning of power and governance, to prevent the concentration of power in the hands of one or several people, as well as to ensure the institutionalization of competition between government entities. Today, when the parliamentary model of governance has been established in Armenia, the issue of overcoming the crisis of legitimacy of the legislative, executive and judicial branches of power should be put on the national agenda. Accordingly, it is considered important that it is necessary to consistently strengthen the system of checks and balances between the branches of government, increase the effectiveness of their interaction, modernize the structure of the executive power, ensure the supremacy of power in all aspects of state and public order, guided by the principle that the law is above any authority. The article puts forward the idea that a new national model of public administration should be introduced in Armenia, based on the cooperation of the branches of government and operating on the principles of efficiency, transparency, regular reporting to the society, with the aim of increasing the changeability of the government structures and holding free elections.
Keywords: separation of powers, concentration of legislative, executive, judicial power, system of checks and balances, state power, institutionalization, parliamentary form of government, branches of government, Congress, Electoral College, Senators, President.