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.