Friday, October 21 2016 13:49

ArmInfo. Orinats Yerkir Faction head Heghine Bisharyan considers the Government's program good but incomplete.    

At a sitting in Parliament, Bisharyan said that 14 governmental  programs have been presented over 13 years, i.e. since she became a  lawmaker, and Prime Minister Karen Karapetyan's program by 80%  resembles the previous programs. "However, this program has positive  emphases, which make it of a high quality," she said, adding that the  programs of the previous governments were also good, but the  authorities failed to implement them. 

"No one forbade the previous governments from eradicating the  monopolies that hamper the SME development. Neither did anyone forbid  them from retrieving the money stolen by various officials and ex-  officials. Instead of pointing at the need to liquidate poverty and  unemployment, the Government should retrieve this money and invest it  in the sectors that will contribute to the economic prosperity," the  lawmaker stressed.  Bisharyan thanked the Prime Minister for  dismissing the ill-famed officials and emphasized the need to hold  them accountable and retrieve all they have been robbing over the  past few years.  In the meantime, Bisharyan stressed that she does  not believe it is possible to attract sufficient investments within  the next 6 months to stop the migration. She added that the Orinats  Yerkir Faction will abstain from voting for the Government's program  in order not to deprive it of the opportunity to put all its positive  provisions in practice. 

On October 20, Prime Minister Karen Karapetyan said that the key task  of the Armenian Government for the next three years will be to form  fair, clear and competitive conditions that will become a driving  force for the country's progress. He noted that a conscientious  businessman should feel safe in the country. He stressed that the  country needs cardinal reforms and that the Government is going to  start that process from itself. The Prime Minister noted the  Government's website will have a page for letters to the Prime  Minister. "Not a single letter will remain without response,"  Karapetyan assured the MPs. He stressed that all the ministries are  instructed to present a new management system whose key factor will  be professionalism. The structures that do not operate properly or do  not work at all will be dissolved, not optimized. The number of the  state non-commercial organizations will be reduced and system of  public procurement and offices for implementation of loan programs  will be centralized.