Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan said the public administration’s objective must be to enable more and more people to have the chance of getting rich instead of simply getting by.
Speaking to lawmakers at a committee hearing on the 2025 budget draft, Pashinyan said the Armenian legislation was not originally developed on the basis of the real Armenia, hence the issues.
“Our problem is that the legislation of Armenia, including the tax and other legislations, were not initially developed on the basis of the real Armenia. And I am not sure that our laws, procedures, policies provide for the best opportunities to develop more. One of the key objectives of the government and parliament, national and local self-governing bodies, the laws and regulations, must be to create the opportunities for more and more citizens of Armenia to get rich through legal work or activities,” Pashinyan said.
The government bodies, since the day they were created, did not overlook this issue but actually never even thought about the need of this objective, Pashinyan said.
“We must solve the following task, to create the opportunity for more people working in Armenia to get rich instead of just getting by. Our objective must be to create the real opportunities for more and more people to get rich through legal, competitive work. We must bring our entire legislation, procedures, foreign and domestic policies in line with these needs, the needs of the real Armenia,” the Prime Minister said, referring to the concept of Real Armenia promoted by his administration.
Addressing the lawmakers Pashinyan said the budget was drafted based on a set of concepts, such as:
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Armenia is my hearth, the people are my family
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Get rich and enrich others
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The future of Armenia depends on one person, and that is you
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The homeland is the country, you love the homeland, strengthen the country.
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Homeland is here, bread and life are here.
According to him, these concepts are not just the basis of the next year's budget, but should be put in the basis of the budget planning as a whole.
