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ADVISING PEOPLE SAVE MONEY IS NOTHING BUT 'SACRILEGE': OPPOSITION MP'S RESPONSE TO RULING PARTY REP
18:19 ~U 15.01.14
Chairman of the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) parliamentary faction
Galust Sahakyan has advised people "to save money for paying public
utilities charges."
Talking to Tert.am, Prosperous Party of Armenia (PAP) member Vahan
Babayan offers Sahakyan the following arithmetical problem: "How can
a person getting AMD 40,000 (about $100) a month save up AMD 80,000
for paying public utilities charge?"
"Before giving such advice, the authorities themselves must learn
saving. Did not the budget debates show the authorities are far from
being economical?"
The Preparliament member Tigran Khzmalyan said: "Many people can recall
a similar advice the then Armenian President Levon Ter-Petrosyan gave
in early 1990s - borrowing money from neighbors."
Armenian National Congress (ANC) member Zoya Tadevosyan called
Sahakyan's advice "sacrilege."
"It is immoral to give such advice, with our millionaire-presidents
and political elite's wild life," she told Tert.am.
"People have no money. Forty percent of Armenia's population is below
the poverty line. What can a poor man save? Can Mr Sahakyan answer
this question?"
Secretary of the Prosperous Armenia parliamentary group Naira Zohrabyan
told Tert.am she is not any more surprised at "such statements." This
situation cannot be tolerated any longer.
"So people with their little children and old people have to fall
ill, save on food only because the authorities' disgraceful policy
has driven them to despair. Let them [officials] visit these people
and see how they can make both ends meet instead of advising them to
save money," Zohrabyan said.
http://www.tert.am/en/news/2014/01/15/utility/
18:19 ~U 15.01.14
Chairman of the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) parliamentary faction
Galust Sahakyan has advised people "to save money for paying public
utilities charges."
Talking to Tert.am, Prosperous Party of Armenia (PAP) member Vahan
Babayan offers Sahakyan the following arithmetical problem: "How can
a person getting AMD 40,000 (about $100) a month save up AMD 80,000
for paying public utilities charge?"
"Before giving such advice, the authorities themselves must learn
saving. Did not the budget debates show the authorities are far from
being economical?"
The Preparliament member Tigran Khzmalyan said: "Many people can recall
a similar advice the then Armenian President Levon Ter-Petrosyan gave
in early 1990s - borrowing money from neighbors."
Armenian National Congress (ANC) member Zoya Tadevosyan called
Sahakyan's advice "sacrilege."
"It is immoral to give such advice, with our millionaire-presidents
and political elite's wild life," she told Tert.am.
"People have no money. Forty percent of Armenia's population is below
the poverty line. What can a poor man save? Can Mr Sahakyan answer
this question?"
Secretary of the Prosperous Armenia parliamentary group Naira Zohrabyan
told Tert.am she is not any more surprised at "such statements." This
situation cannot be tolerated any longer.
"So people with their little children and old people have to fall
ill, save on food only because the authorities' disgraceful policy
has driven them to despair. Let them [officials] visit these people
and see how they can make both ends meet instead of advising them to
save money," Zohrabyan said.
http://www.tert.am/en/news/2014/01/15/utility/