{"id":241857,"date":"2013-10-23T18:00:14","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T14:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=241857"},"modified":"2013-10-24T18:54:45","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T14:54:45","slug":"question-in-parliament-are-armenian-president-and-prime-minister-worthy-of-salary-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2013\/10\/23\/question-in-parliament-are-armenian-president-and-prime-minister-worthy-of-salary-increase.html","title":{"rendered":"Pashinyan: Are Armenian President and Prime Minister Worthy of Salary Increase?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Are high-ranking state officials in Armenia worthy of a wage increase? Armenian National Congress MP Nikol Pashinyan asked this question to Minister-Chief of Staff of the RA Government Vache Gabrielyan today during discussion of a bill in the National Assembly on remuneration of persons in public office.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe opposition MP quoted an excerpt from the draft law, which proposes to increase the Armenian president&rsquo;s salary by 203%; the prime minister&rsquo;s and parliamentary speaker&rsquo;s salaries, by 218%; and MPs, by 100%. Gabrielyan responded by saying that the people have to decide whether officials deserve higher wages.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;It is my understanding that the will of the employer, [that is,] the people, is expressed in the decisions of the National Assembly. The matter will be decided in this hall,&rdquo; said Gabrielyan.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;The problem is that the will of the people is not expressed in this hall,&rdquo; countered Pashinyan. According to him, evidence of this is the decision adopted by parliament today to eliminate the 18,000 AMD (about $45 USD, monthly and per person) unemployment benefits.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn discussing the matter of increasing state officials&rsquo; salaries, Gabrielyan advised lawmakers not to forget that increasing wages can eliminate the risk of corruption.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are high-ranking state officials in Armenia worthy of a wage increase? Armenian National Congress MP Nikol Pashinyan asked this question to Minister-Chief of Staff of the RA Government Vache Gabrielyan&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":241825,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15418,50949,50950,38854,50948],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241857"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}