ArmInfo. The Minister of Labor and Social Affairs, Mane Tandilian, resigned.
She justified her decision by a contradiction in the implementation of mandatory funded pension system with the current Cabinet. "As I know, I was and am an opponent of this system, constantly fought against its implementation, since it does not enjoy public support." Having become a minister, I initiated a bill to postpone the implementation of the system for a year, so that in time to discuss and accept acceptable for the public the model of reform, based on which there should have been an optional component rather than an obligatory, unfortunately, the government made a different decision by switching to the mandatory funded pension system from July 1. For me it is not acceptable peremptory decision-making methods, which operated under the previous regime and were also used for this issue In this regard I have decided to resign from the post of Minister of Labor and Social Affairs ", Tandilyan wrote on her page to Facebook.
She also reported her withdrawal from the "Enlightened Armenia" party, since it was her quota that was appointed by the Minister of Labor and Social Affairs.