During a press conference that ARF-D Parliamentary Faction’s Secretary Artashes Shahbazyan gave jointly with his fellow colleague Artsivk Minasyan, Shahbazyan commenting on the Party’s Parliamentary performance stated that it was sufficient. “We did our work and we kept our Party’s features” he said and added that ARF-D combined its opposition role with a constructive participation…
ARF-D Member of Parliament Artsvik Minasyan stated that ARF-D is examining the legal aspect of an appeal to the Constitutional Court after the negative outcome of the motion of no confidence against the government that the ARF-D moved yesterday. He said that the ARF-D wants to appeal until the end of this year. Minasyan also…
ARF-D Parliamentary Faction’s motion of no confidence against the government was put to a vote today. The Parliament by 13 votes for, 48 against and 4 abstentions declined ARF-D’s motion. ARF-D’s motion was backed up by the Heritage (Zharangutyun) Party. The 2012 budget draft law was also scheduled to be put to a vote today.…
“It is possible to play games with the numbers and the data but I believe that we must have concrete criteria. How much does the proposed budget affect the Armenian citizen’s living conditions, how much does his living standard change, improve?” said ARF-D Parliamentary Faction’s Secretary Artashes Shahbazyan during the discussions about the 2012 state…
ARF-D Member of Parliament and Deputy Chairman of the Standing Committee on Financial, Credit and Budgetary Affairs Artsvik Minasyan stated that the 2012 budget can be already considered failed and that ARF-D will vote against it. Minasyan said that the 48% target about employment should be raised to 65%, the ratio between the state budget…
Discussing in the Parliament the 2012 state budget, ARF-D Member of Parliament Ara Nranyan said that the government’s policy on this issue is causing a crisis itself. Nranyan brought the example of agriculture and said that if a state chooses not to fund the farmer, the farm business and the investor then the state itself…
ARF-D Parliamentary Faction members Vahan Hovhannesyan, Armen Rustamyan and Lilit Galstyan on separate interviews they gave in newspapers and websites were critical of the government’s recent decisions to change the Mayor of Yerevan and the Chief of Police. They all pointed out that the government hasn’t provided any explanations about the reasons behind these changes.…
ARF-D Parliamentary Faction members Vahan Hovhannesyan, Armen Rustamyan and Lilit Galstian on separate interviews they gave in newspapers and websites were critical of the government’s recent decisions to change the Mayor of Yerevan and the Chief of Police. They all pointed out that the government hasn’t provided any explanations about the reasons behind these changes.…
On an interview with www.7or.am, ARF-D member of Parliament Ara Nranyan referring to Armenia’s Republican Party’s (ARP) economic conference, part of which was simultaneously aired and replying to the journalist’s question on whether this consists a pre-electoral campaigning Nranyan said that in Armenia everything has to do with elections. No real issues are met because…
The Hrayr Maroukhian Foundation organized a two-day seminar dedicated to Social Democracy (SD) in Yerevan on October 29-30, 2011. Dr. Christian Krell, one of the co-authors of “Foundations of Social Democracy” and Michael Reschke from the Freidrich-Eibert Stiftung led the seminar with the participation of members of parliament, economists, political scientists and sociologists. The topics…
