ArmInfo.The Heritage Party requires the government to provide documentary data on where and in what areas 50,000 new jobs opened, which were mentioned by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan during his speech at the session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg.
<In the published materials of the RA Statistics Committee, we did not find confirmation of the data you provided. Moreover, according to official data, in February of this year, 20.8% of the able-bodied population of Armenia - 228.8 thousand people are unemployed. This indicator practically does not differ from the indicators recorded in previous months. In some areas, on the contrary, there is an increase in unemployment - metallurgy and the mining industry, "says the open letter to the party, addressed to Pashinyan.
The party expresses the hope that in support of the declared principle of transparency of the work of the Cabinet of Ministers, the government will publish this data, as well as information about how many jobs were closed under the new authorities.