2018 will be the year of the biggest inflation - Nikol Pashinyan's questions to the Minister: (video)
Today, the National Assembly began discussing the draft state budget. It is represented by Finance Minister Vardan Aramyan. The head of Yelk (Way out) faction, Nikol Pashinyan, asked the minister noting that the benefits, pensions, minimum wages did not increase, social, educational and health costs dropped, foreign debt increased. "You now take as much debt as you have taken in the tense moments. At the same time prices increase. In this respect, the highest inflatrion will be in 2018, compared to other years. This means that the poor will be even poorer. Despite all this, state employees' premiums have increased. " In response, Vardan Aramyan said that we should not only give benefits and pensions to get out of the difficult situation, but should create favorable conditions for this. Nikol Pashinyan noticed: "Let's talk about the factories on the border line. Banks give loans to others for 10%, but for them, 20%, because they say that any time the turks can shoot and these factories will be lost. The fact is that the poverty is not be reduced. "
