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“How will Serzh Sargsyan dare?”

Politics

Former RA Prime Minister Hrant Bagratyan says he is tired of criticizing Tigran Sargsyan's lies. He knows Sargsyan well and believes that he won't step down until he doesn't destroy the country.

Bagratyan says it is a lie that the luxury tax will help collect 101 billion more drams of taxes next year.

According to him, next year's budget will help increase emigration from Armenia, and those staying in Armenia will see a 11 percent inflation that will help neutralize the risks of the budget executive.

Bagratyan says he can't perceive the comparison between emigration and inflation.

"There has been a 3 percent reduction of the population and the amount of food has increased by 15 percent. How could food prices go up by 14 percent?" he asked.

Bagratyan doesn't understand how the ruling political force will ask for votes from the people during the elections. "How is the Republican Party going to participate in the elections? How is Serzh Sargsyan going to dare to run again?"

For starters, he demands that Serzh Sargsyan "exile the prime minister, the head of the Central Bank and the Minister of Finance".

Crisis still at Republic Square?

"According to the low prices in 2007, Serzh Sargsyan had to make the GDP (this year-ed.) reach 6 trillion drams. Today, the GDP is 3.5 trillion," this is former prime minister Hrant Bagratyan's analysis.

He remembers that in 2007, then Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan had pledged to make the budget reach 5.5 billion dollars in four years. "The budget is currently 2,220,000 drams," Hrant Bagratyan said, adding that he would like to know whether there will be one government official to be held accountable for telling lies or not.

"They keep saying the country is in a crisis. Perhaps the crisis is at Republic Square and perhaps the crisis refers to one person," Bagratyan says, adding that the only way out is to have these authorities step down.