Nikol Pashinyan: Government allocated more money to service cars than to border villages (video)
During the discussion of the draft budget for FY 2017, opposition lawmaker Nikol Pashinyan said the authorities are continually talking about the arms industry, but one can hardly find the word in the budget. “I found the word with a search service in a program that offers 13 mln allocation and has nothing to do with the arms industry,” Pashinyan said. He added that decline in consumption totaled 6 percent this year. “The government gave 31 billion from the economy to the police. I am speaking about those accursed speedometers and cameras. It has become an extra-budgetary expense and part of the money has gone abroad. Every time we say the same thing and every time it becomes a topic of heated debates. The number of victims and traffic violations has nothing to do with cameras and speedometers,” Pashinyan said. The lawmaker added that the government has allocated more money to the service cars than to border villages. The difference made about 2 mln drams. “Why should the head of the Transport Department of Yerevan Municipality travel by service car? In fact he should use minibuses and buses to see how people commute to and from work. A tender should be announced for service cars, and officials must be disallowed to use the cars for their family members. These cars are not meant for their family children to go to shops or parties in them.”
