Epress.am News from Armenia
Zaruhi Postanjyan, head of the Heritage Party parliamentary faction, considers the bill to increase the salaries of high-ranking officials (the president, the prime minister, ministers and MPs) to be discriminatory.
While making statements in the National Assembly, the opposition MP mentioned that being increased are the salaries of those members of the elite who regularly falsify the elections.
As for MPs, in Postanjyan’s opinion, they too are not worthy of a pay increase, since the current 240,000 AMD (about $592 USD) per month “for [simply] pressing a button” is sufficient, especially since MPs often vote for each other (in the case of absentees).
The MP also noticed that the salaries of ordinary workers in other sectors in Armenia will increase only slightly and that will happen only after Jul. 1, 2014; meanwhile, until then people have to live with a constant rise in prices.