Pashinyan lambastes everyone
President of the Control Chamber Ishkhan Zakaryan is speaking about abuses and misuse of government expenditures, ignoring the huge sums spent on his gorgeous mansion, opposition MP Nikol Pashinyan said during today's parliamentary hearing on the activities of the Control Chamber.
"Nine months ago, Ishkhan Zakaryan was giving a report in the parliament about the abuses of others and today, nine months later, he is doing the same," Pashinyan said.
Then he commented on the response of Parliament Speaker Hovik Abrahamyan, who, in reply to Zakaryan's findings in the sphere of construction, said that all looters should be punished. "During the 20 years of his tenure in office, Abrahamyan became one of the largest land owners in Armenia. Today he is seeking for the looters who plundered the country and cannot, in any way, find them."
Pashinyan also speak about Republican MP Vardan Ayvazyan who was involved in a major corruption scandal, when he held the position of the Minister of Environment. Today the MP demands that looters be disclosed and punished. "The same is true about Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan who, after being implicated in an off-shore scandal, is wasting no time in speaking about the need to combat corruption," said Pashinyan.
"Judging by the aforesaid I can conclude that out government pursues a dubious policy; being corrupt it struggles against corruption and illegitimacy. In March 2008, they killed their compatriots and today they want to reveal these killings, they force people to emigrate from the country and at the same time they fight against emigration...They seem to be testing people's patience," said the opposition MP.
