ArmInfo. All the aspirations of the people, connected with the governments of different times, for 25 years of Armenia's independence were not justified. With this statement, Deputy Speaker of the "Tsarukyan" bloc, Mikael Melkumyan made a speech from the rostrum of the parliament.
"The people demanded little - work and justice. Today there is no work, no justice," said the vice-speaker. In addition, he stressed, the opposition at various times demanded a reduction in bank interest rates, which would lead to a healthy economy, but this was done only last year. "If there were opportunities to lower interest rates, why it was not done earlier, why we lost so much time, who is guilty for all this? We should identify and punish all those guilty at the parliamentary level for the current situation," Melkumyan said.
The deputy from the opposition bloc "Elk" Gevorg Gorgisyan noted that all the praises of the representatives of the ruling Republican Party towards their leader are not appropriate. "It's worth to look at the figures only to understand that there is no need to praise Serzh Sargsyan, the situation under his presidency only worsened. Economic growth was 2.4% while the world average is 3.2%, 81% of small and medium-sized enterprises are on the number of transfers from $ 3 million fell to $ 500 thousand, external debt from $ 1.9 billion reached $ 6 billion. The poverty level rose from 27% to 29%, and, according to the World Bank, to 76%. Only 11% of the country's population receive a salary of more than 150 thousand drams against the background of the total unemployment rate and all this creates in citizens a sense of hopeless injustice and leads to an increase in emigration. 372,000 citizens permanently left Armenia", MP said.