The recent bill on compulsory pension fund creation launched political processes which highlight the fact that Armenia’s governance is poor and the government is anti-democratic. President Serzh Sargsyan openly announced that 80 per cent of the society is against this proposal, and that the government is minority.
This once again comes to prove that the state treasury needs money very badly. As you see the statement doesn’t bring up the sanctions that can be possibly applied. It means that this statement was made as vaguely as possibly in order not to contradict the decision of the constitutional court.
The parliamentary four non-government political parties failed to come to an agreement on bringing up a bill to start a process of impeachment. The official explanation is that these powers have decided to let the ANC develop their decision on creation of a commission to look into the events of March 1 as the anniversary is closer.
Raffi K. Hovannisian today received a visiting delegation of British legislators headed by John Whittingdale, leader of the British group of the Inter-Parliamentary Union. The delegation included Baroness Gloria Hooper and Lord Richard Faulkner of the House of Lords and Harriett Baldwin and Stephen Pound of the House of Commo
It means the capital avoids our country and is moved to other countries and serves the boon of other nations,” mentioned Tsarukyan. Everything is right. Moreover, Tsarukyan has even presented everything in milder colors. He could have said that not only the foreign capital avoids investments but even the existing Armenian capital is diminishing. Gagik Tsarukayn himself invests a lot in different countries.
One year ago, on February 18, 2013, there was presidential election in Armenia, as a result of which the incumbent president Serzh Sargsyan won the election in the first vote. Formally the second candidate after the president that lost the election was Raffi Hovhannisyan, who in spite of many forecasts collected 540,000 votes (37 per cent). In fact one year ago the one who lost the election for Serzh Sargsyan was not Raffi Hovhannisyan but the Armenian society.
Our main goal was to avoid war. At present there is a little threat of a big war. But we need to accept that we need a big change necessity. But there is a big need of revolutions and it is the problem of the elite to reach this impulse to the Republicans and the rest of the parties. If this goes on the situation is going to be worse in 20-30 years. The rest of the steps depend on who the leader is.
The remaining amount after tax is 75,600 drams. The compulsory pension fund payment that is 5 per cent is not calculated on this amount but on the gross salary, i.e. 100,000 drams. In this case it is not 5 per cent but 6,6 per cent of the net salary.
“I do not think the RPA will be ready to leave the power till the next national elections. Do they have the potential to understand that they have to change or we will lose our state or the historical opportunity of state building? Or, if they do not understand this, there will be greater emigration from the country,” says Artur Martirosyan of Boston, a negotiation expert, senior advisor to CM&Partners company.
Today we were informed that the EU 13 countries have worked out an action plan for continuing cooperation with countries of the Eastern Partnership project. In Armenia this project is called “European Package.”
