MPs do not live a life to be envied by others
Republican MP Hrant Grigoryan says his life has not improved following the 7,2 percent economic growth reported in 2012.
"We live as we lived," he said.
Another lawmaker of the Republican Party of Armenia, Alexan Petrosyan, also lives on his ‘modest' wages.
"The difference of the economic growth is so trivial that one does not feel it in life," he said.
MP Vardan Ayvazyan is no longer satisfied with his salary of 260,000 drams.
"At that time, you paid 300 drams for one dollar, today you pay 400 drams. If you compare the dollar-dram ratio and the inflation of the recent years, you will see that we have sustained significant losses in these years," said the Republican MP.
Paymaster General of Armenia Atom Janjughazyan is not as naïve asto say that people will live better and there will be double-digit economic growth. "Human needs are growing rapidly, faster than the economy," he said.
What can an average person dream of in a country where poverty makes 35 percent? The chief treasurer gave a simple reply, "This man will no longer want to be poor..."
