“Shadow governance is more dangerous than even the shadow economy because the shadow economy, corruption, bribery are the consequence of shadow governance,” said the President of the Constitutional Court Gagik Harutyunyan at the AUA in response to the question of a student about how it is possible to change the constitutional culture to reduce the degree of shadow governance or to eliminate it.
“You raised one of the painful issues for me. We can find this concern in the Constitutional reforms conception; such a huge concentration of political system, cohesion of political administrative and economic potential in the country resulted in the shadow governance, and it is increasingly reaching dangerous proportions. Even the CC has reported in one of its annual releases that this very phenomenon has become a threat to the internal security of the country. Why does this happen? It happens in the event of the lack of Constitutionalism and low level of constitutional culture,” said Mr. Harutyunyan continuing to answer the question. Later, he talked about the legal disputes, saying that the constitutional disputes should not be resolved in the political dimension but on the contrary, the political disputes must be resolved in the constitutional dimension, “As soon as you move the legal dispute to a political dimension, this dispute has no solution and ends with knives and smashing each other’s heads.”
