ArmInfo.The vast majority of respondents in Armenia positively assess the economic state of the Republic. This is evidenced by the results of the "Fog" survey conducted by the MPG consulting company (Marketing Professional Group - the exclusive representative of the International Association GALLUP in Armenia).
So, to the question, how do you assess the economic state of the Republic of Armenia as of today, 3.4% of respondents answered very well, 9.2% - good, 53.9% - average, 13.6% - bad, 19.2% - very bad, another 0.7% - found it difficult to answer.
At the same time, the majority of respondents are dissatisfied with the activities of not only the government, but also the president, prime minister, and parliament.
Answering the relevant question, 57.9% of respondents expressed dissatisfaction with the work of the National Assembly, 33.7% positively assessed it, and another 6.5% found it difficult to answer.
51% of respondents expressed dissatisfaction with the work of the government, 42%- positively assessed it, 7.2% found it difficult to answer.
A fairly large number of respondents found it difficult to assess the activities of the President of Armenia. Those were 18.3%. Another 48.3% assessed his work negatively, and only 33.5% of respondents assessed it positively. 38% of Armenian respondents are satisfied with the work of the Prime Minister in Armenia, 57.8% are dissatisfied, and another 4.2% found it difficult to answer.
We also add that citizens did not give high assessment to the work and heads of bodies operating in the country. So, when asked to assess the work of the heads of a number of bodies on a 5-point scale, the results were as follows: Head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations Armen Pambukhchyan received the highest score of 3.6 points. He is followed by Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan - 3.3 points. Police Chief Vahe Ghazaryan, RA Human Rights Defender Kristine Grigoryan and Minister of High Technology Industry Robert Khachatryan took the third place with 3.2 points each. Director of the National Security Service of the Republic of Armenia Armen Abazyan and Minister of Territorial Administration Gnel Sanosyan received 3.1 points each. Minister of Economy Vahan Kerobyan, Minister of Defense Suren Papikyan, Minister of Environment Hakob Simidyan, Minister of Health Anahit Simonyan, Minister of Social Labor Narek Mkrtchyan received 2.9 points each. Already former head of the MESCS Vahram Dumanyan and the Ministry of Justice received 2.8 points each. And Tigran Khachatryan, the former head of the Ministry of Finance, had the worst results, whose work was rated by the respondents at 2.7 points.
At the same time, when asked to assess the appointment of businessman Ruben Vardanyan as the state minister of Artsakh, 51.5% of those polled considered this appointment positive, 27.6% - negative, and another 21% found it difficult to answer. It should be noted that the survey was conducted through telephone calls to residents of Armenia from December 5 to December 10 of this year. The sample size was 1100, the sampling error was +/- 3%. In 2011, MPG became the official representative in Armenia of the Gallup International Association, one of the most prestigious and independent public opinion research organizations in the world. Since 2003, MPG, working in the sociological and marketing research market, has implemented more than 800 projects of various sizes.