ArmInfo.After the revolution, the practice of fines was significantly reduced, and in the near future a draft law on the revision of the system of fines for violating traffic rules will be submitted to the National Assembly. The Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan stated this on March 19 at a press conference.
He noted that the new government implemented a large amnesty in connection with fines of 13 billion drams. "I assure you that people will no longer be fined for nothing, for any insignificant offense. We allocated some funds from the state budget to finance the Armenian Police, and the state budget takes on more than it took before," the premier stressed. Pashinyan said that the whole system should be changed. "In the near future, a" scoring system "will be presented to the National Assembly, and we will permanently get rid of this problem. The current system is wrong," the premier stressed.
He also noted that the issue of temporary suspension of the system of surveillance cameras of traffic and speed recorders, discussed by the government in May at a meeting, raised a negative wave in civil society. "Many people and organizations that are professionally involved in these issues, noted that this would increase the number of traffic violations. We decided that we need to find alternative solutions to this issue. Recently, we have forgiven many fines and carried out some reforms in order to find a solution to the problem, given the criticism. Since there are people who believe that speed recorders are necessary and there are many of them, we decided to find a balanced approach to solving this problem, "concluded Pashinyan.
Prime Minister: Draft on revising fines for violating traffic rules will be submitted to the National Assembly in the near future