Friday, June 5 2020 13:40

ArmInfo. Despite the fact that a large part of the responsibility undoubtedly lies with the authorities, the coronavirus is a problem that affects any citizen of  Armenia, an MP of the parliamentary fraction ''My Step'' Artur  Hovhannisyan expressed a similar opinion to ArmInfo. 

''The reality is that against the backdrop of the difficult struggle  that each of us today is trying to wage with the spread of COVID-19,  the so-called opposition political forces, who in fact are fulfilling  somene's instructions, are trying to make benefits on this situation.  For these people, the main thing is political gain, but not the  health of our citizens, "he said.

According to the lawmaker, this explains the constant criticism,  dissatisfaction, and demands on the authorities by forces acting from  opposition positions. At the same time, not a single, more or less  reasonable proposal, let alone a package of proposals to the  government to get out of the current situation in the country, was  voiced by these forces.

At the same time, the parliamentarian does not think that for the  overwhelming part of the Armenian society, people voicing calls for  the resignation of the government may be at least to some extent  acceptable. First of all, due to the consistent work of the  government towards mitigating the consequences of the coronavirus  epidemic. An assessment of those who put sticks in the wheel of the  government for the narrow-purpose goals in the current difficult  situation, in his opinion, will be made at the end of the epidemic.

Agreeing with a number of points of criticism of the government,  Hovhannisyan emphasized that this is a meaningful, constructive  criticism, which at the same time contains solutions and ways out of  the current situation. Such criticism, like any reasonable proposal,  the authorities, according to his estimates, always willingly accept.  The MP characterizes the rest of the criticism as directed solely at  receiving political dividends.

''Our health care system has been deprived of the due level of  funding for decades. And the initiated criminal cases demonstrate  that the allocated funds did not reach the addressees. In my opinion,  in this light, the health system is in fact doing more work than it  can afford. Moreover, during the quarantine period, control was not  carried out at the proper level. Among the reasons are the  shortcomings and omissions of the power structures and the incomplete  perception of our citizens of the dangers that we all face with the  coronavirus>, Hovhannisyan concluded.