Dashnaktsutyun MP Finds ‘Terrible Things’ in 2012 Budget

The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun, or ARF-D) opposes the 2012 state budget because it not only does not address the main challenges facing the country, but also contains socially unacceptable proposals, said ARF-D MP Artsvik Minasyan during a press briefing in parliament today.

“In demographic terms, a terrible thing has been registered the budget [by those very same] political forces [from who can be heard] such rhetoric as if child delivery became free of charge because of their behavior or they come short of saying that the Armenian people are having babies because of them. As a result of such approaches, in the 2012 draft budget we have regression in the matter of births. If this system was so effective, then why has Armenian society decided not to have children to a great extent, or have less children than in the previous period?” asked Minasyan.

Weighing in on accusations against his party, the Dashnak MP said that individual representatives of the political majority are trying to express their lack of knowledge, saying that Dashnaktsutyun is guided by populist approaches.

“A person either has to at least not understand what he’s talking about or understanding, put himself in the place of another phenomenon or  another creature to make such a statement,” he said. According to him, today’s government and the political majority have not fulfilled their pre-elections promises and thus, “Now who from them is more populist?”