“Whoever becomes President cannot avoid taking under consideration ARF-D’s political agenda” said ARF-D Armenia’s Supreme Council Chairman, Armen Rustamyan during a press conference that was held at the party’s “Simon Vratsyan” premises, today. According to tert.am Rustamyan said that the party will try to unite the population and added that “history tells us that whenever…
The upcoming presidential elections of February 2013 are a unique opportunity to reassess the road our statehood has taken so far, to correctly formulate the problems that the country and society face, to outline the actions that will provide the population’s welfare, to counter with dignity the challenges on the foreign affairs front. It is…
Asked by www.1in.am about the 2013 budget, ARF-D Member of Parliament and Vice Chairman of the Parliament’s Standing Committee on Financial-Credit and Budgetary Affairs, Artsvik Minasyan said that it’s true that the challenges standing before Armenia are many, deep and extensive. The budget is supposed to counter a big part of these challenges but that…
ARF-D Parliamentary Faction‘s Secretary and Supreme Council Vice-chairman, Aghvan Vardanyan during an interview with Azatutuyn radio station (November 1st) didn’t exclude the possibility for the opposition to nominate a strong candidate to run against President Sargsyan on the upcoming elections. “The situation in Armenia is of that sort, that any development is possible” he said…
The “through surgical intervention” anticorruption struggle should lead to jail and not to discharge stated ARF-D Member of Parliament, Vahan Hovhannesyan in response to Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan’s call addressed to the oppositional political parties to join the anticorruption struggle. Hovhannesyan reminded that ARF-D had proposed a legislative measure in order to have a non-authoritative…
In reference to the 2013 state budget parliamentary hearings that began on October 30, ARF-D member, Artsvik Minasyan said that the proposed draft is neither bold nor aims at solving the challenges that the country is facing, at the moment. “The biggest challenge in Armenia is about creating jobs and it seems like the state…
ARF-D Parliamentary Faction, proposed a number of amendments to the Pension law. According to the law in power, a citizen who returns to Armenia after a long absence, has the right to receive in whole the amount corresponding to his pension for the last three years. However, a government’s decision taken this spring, has changed…
Tert.am reports that ARF-D Parliamentary Faction members, Artzvik Minasyan, Aghvan Vardanyan and Armen Babayan have put into circulation a draft law “On the Approval of List of Products imported by organizations and individual entrepreneurs eligible for zero (0) rate customs duty and excise duty exemption, for which the customs service does not calculate or charge…
On October 18, the government of Armenia declined ARF-D’s draft law about adopting a 100% proportional electoral system. “Obviously, there is a simple explanation for this decision. The authorities are well aware that the single-mandate system is one of the key guarantees for their reproduction” said Head of ARF-D Parliamentary Faction and Supreme Council Chairman,…
(MASSACHUSETTS, October 1)- On Thursday afternoon, Sept. 27, the General Prosecutor of the Republic of Armenia, Aghvan Hovsepian, presented to parliament a petition to strip Vartan Oskanian of his parliamentary immunity. Following the announcement, on Sept. 27, Oskanian’s lawyer, Dikran Atanesian, stated that according to the regulations of the National Assembly (NA) of Armenia, the…
