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n Saturday, February 26, Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan paid a party-related visit to Ijevan. He was accompanied by a set of ministers – Minister of Finance Vache Gabrielyan, Minister of Economy Tigran Davtyan, Minister of Justice Hrayr Tovmasyan.
Given this fact, workers of the town municipal services of Ijevan broke and cleaned the ice in front of the building of the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) regional office in Ijevan and swept the street.
After the party’s office, the prime minister visited no. 41 electoral district commission. On that day, the door of no. 41 electoral district commission had been replaced – there was a “European door” instead of the old, shabby door.
The RPA village headmen, school principals of Tavush and others met with the prime minister in the regional administration hall. If any other party wishes to hold a meeting in the regional administration building of Tavush on a nonworking day, will they allow using the hall? National Assembly Republican MPs Gagik Melikyan, Gagik Minasyan, Hakob Hakobyan (no. 41 electoral district of Tavush) participated in the meeting.
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Governor Armen Ghularyan tried to limit questions the prime minister was asked, calling on the village headmen to ask questions not concerning their communities, but more general questions. However, Tigran Sargsyan called on the people present to ask him questions freely. One of the community leaders asked about the Cabinet’s initiative to forgive land tax debts, from which according to the community leader farmers who had paid land taxes suffered. There are some concerns that they will not pay taxes from now on either, expecting that their debts will be forgiven in 5 years, in the run-up to elections. The prime minister said that the bill of forgiving land tax debts was to be passed by the National Assembly yet and that it concerned only fines and not the principle sum.
Unemployed Davit Sahakyan, a resident of bordering Ditavan, a father of 4 boys and a graduated lawyer, said to the prime minister that his family lived on a 44-thousand-AMD benefit, if he found a job, for which he would be paid 70-80 thousand AMD, he would lose the benefit. He also complained that his large family was not given farmland in bordering Ditavan, that’s why he lived in Ijevan, in the house of his relative who was inRussia. Davit said that he had no possibility to get a mortgage and asked what the Cabinet did to improve the housing conditions of large families in the bordering zone. The Prime Minister promised to solve the issue of giving land in Ditavan to D. Sahakyan. In Tigran Sargsyan’s words, they wished families to live not on benefits, but on a high wage, 300 thousand AMD per month, of the breadwinner. The audience applauded after those words.
“Besides the prime minister and a few MPs sitting in the hall who else earns 300 thousand AMD?” complained Davit to Aravot.
At the meeting, around ten school principals, workers of medical and other state institutions and others got the RPA membership cards from the hands of the prime minister.
Voskan SARGSYAN
