ArmInfo. "We will try to fit in 12 ministries", - told journalists on December 19th. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, referring to the future optimization of the state apparatus.According to him, the ruling political force launched an initiative to reduce the number of ministries even during the election campaign during the parliamentary elections.
Pashinyan did not rule out that the staff of the first deputy prime minister may also be reduced, as well as acting president. First Deputy Prime Minister Ararat Mirzoyan will be engaged in legislative activities. All these are plans and so far at the level of the project to be discussed, he noted.Earlier, ArmInfo reported that at this stage the issue of uniting the Ministries of Education and Science, Sport and Youth, Diaspora and Culture into one department is being discussed. In addition, the plans of the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs to combine with the Ministry of Health, as well as to gather in one structure the power industry workers, transport workers. The establishment of a ministry of communications and high technologies is also expected. It should be noted that in a small Armenia with a population of less than 3 million people, there are 18 ministries, four deputy prime ministers and countless various committees, councils and commissions.