{"id":286072,"date":"2018-06-07T20:10:43","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T16:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/epress.am?p=286072"},"modified":"2018-06-08T10:42:36","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T06:42:36","slug":"armenias-parliament-approves-new-government-policy-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2018\/06\/07\/armenias-parliament-approves-new-government-policy-program.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenia\u2019s Parliament Approves New Government Policy Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/varchapet1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-286068\" src=\"http:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/varchapet1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Armenia\u2019s National Assembly approved on Thursday the newly-appointed Armenian government\u2019s policy program; the program was passed amid heated debates by 62 votes to 39.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany argue that our program lacks numbers\u2026 In reality, however, there are a lot of numbers in it, and I will gladly present them,\u201d Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said in his pre-vote speech.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is or what the level of corruption among high-ranking officials will be in Armenia? I officially declare now that the number \u00a0is 0.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat will the percentage of privileged be in Armenia? I officially declare that the number is 0.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow much taxes should large businesses in Armenia give to the Prime Minister monthly? I officially declare that the number is 0.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow many monopolies should there be in Armenia. I officially declare that the number is 0.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe that the best assessment of our program was given by [Republican faction spokesman, NA Deputy Speaker Eduard] Sharmazanov. He called a program of our dreams. Yes, Mr. Sharmazanov, your party and your government trampled upon the people&#8217;s dream, hiding behind numbers. This is a dream program; it\u2019s a problem that\u2019ll let us have the country of our dreams. With this program we declare that we have returned the citizens of the Republic of Armenia their right to dream,\u201d Pashinyan announced.<\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister went on to claim that the minute he realized he had lost the people\u2019s trust, he would immediately resign as the head of the government. \u201cWe all understand that the National Assembly elected me PM despite their own wishes. Let no one say that they thus did me or anyone else a favor. And let no one think that they will do be doing me or the government a favor by voting for this program. We don\u2019t need favors in the National Assembly. You\u2019re free to vote for or against. We have the trust of the people, and we\u2019ve already said that the people&#8217;s trust should lead to a specific political impact This will lead to a specific political impact, regardless of whether you want it or not,\u201d Pashinyan charged right before the vote.<\/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>The Prime Minister went on to claim that the minute he realized he had lost the people\u2019s trust, he would immediately resign as the head of the government. \u201cWe all understand that&#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":286069,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[66047,66058],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286072"}],"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=286072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}