ArmInfo.It's amazing how quickly people change. Yesterday's opposition, having come to power, very quickly became irreconcilable towards its rivals. Leader of the "Bright Armenia" faction Edmon Marukyan stated this on February 14 from the rostrum of the parliament.
According to him, the new government has already encountered temptations. The MP recalled the words of the Prime Minister that poverty is in the minds of people. Previously, in the presence of poverty, people all piled on three presidents - Levon Ter-Petrosyan, Robert Kocharyan and Serzh Sargsyan; now, as the MP noted, it turns out that citizens themselves must overcome poverty, and then an economic revolution will occur. "Why do we need regulators then?" Edmond Marukyan asked.
He also touched upon the topic of the fight against corruption. A person close to the Minister of Education and Science of Armenia, who headed the Agrarian University of Armenia, began the optimization process. First of all, he accrued to himself a salary in the amount of 855 thousand drams against 544 thousand from the former rector. "He highly appreciated himself," Edmon Marukyan noted, adding that his rector set a new rector at 150,000 drams, while the salary of the doctor of science professors did not change and makes 172.5 thousand drams. A new rector also opened a department in which only two people work - the head and the employee. "What is this, if not corruption," asked the leader of the party and faction to Minister of Education and Science Arayik Harutyunyan. Edmond Marukyan recalled that corruption is not only bribery. "Read Transparency International", and you will understand what corruption is, " the MP advised Arayik Harutyunyan.