Republican MP votes for his absent colleagues
The bill on granting tax and customs privileges to a government-proposed project to build an international school in the resort town of Dilijan today passed its second by a vote of 67 to 5 and 12 abstentions.
It envisages granting of privileges to all the organizations that will be recognized as program implementers. When the bill was put to the vote, Republican MP Hovhannes Sofoyan began voting on behalf of his absent colleagues.
The organizations will be exempted from income taxes during transactions with non-resident companies.
By a vote of 87 to 0, the National Assembly also passed, in the second reading, the bill on the Status of Yerkrapah Volunteer Union. The bill envisages better social protection of people who fought as volunteers in the Karabakh war but have not been officially recognized as veterans until today.
Before the voting, secretary of the Prosperous Armenia Party Naira Zohrabyan said none of their proposals had been accepted by the National Assembly.
the NA hall emptied immediately after the voting.
