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ARFD: Government must be responsible for its mistakes and ready to
resign if its reforms go wrong
ARMINFO
Tuesday, May 21, 18:40
A government must be responsible for its mistakes and ready to resign
if its reforms go wrong, the head of the parliamentary group of ARFD
Vahan Hovhannisyan said on Tuesday.
"Why haven't our people ever seen a government official punished for
his mistakes or wrongdoings? If a government official gets the
pensions of dead people, he must be punished - this is normal,"
Hovhannisyan said, meaning the former chief of the Social Security
Service Vazgen Khachikyan, who was arrested for machinations.
"Normally, a government undertaking radical reforms must be ready to
resign should they go wrong, but our government is conducting reforms
for the sole purpose to stay in power. Power is not a means for them
but a goal. This is a dangerous logic. It may finally prompt them not
to conduct any reforms at all: why educate people, if it is easier to
control them when they are ignorant? why fight oligarchs if they may
go into opposition or leave the country with their money? This is a
logic that will lead us to nowhere," Hovhannisyan said.
resign if its reforms go wrong
ARMINFO
Tuesday, May 21, 18:40
A government must be responsible for its mistakes and ready to resign
if its reforms go wrong, the head of the parliamentary group of ARFD
Vahan Hovhannisyan said on Tuesday.
"Why haven't our people ever seen a government official punished for
his mistakes or wrongdoings? If a government official gets the
pensions of dead people, he must be punished - this is normal,"
Hovhannisyan said, meaning the former chief of the Social Security
Service Vazgen Khachikyan, who was arrested for machinations.
"Normally, a government undertaking radical reforms must be ready to
resign should they go wrong, but our government is conducting reforms
for the sole purpose to stay in power. Power is not a means for them
but a goal. This is a dangerous logic. It may finally prompt them not
to conduct any reforms at all: why educate people, if it is easier to
control them when they are ignorant? why fight oligarchs if they may
go into opposition or leave the country with their money? This is a
logic that will lead us to nowhere," Hovhannisyan said.