WHOSE SOCIAL PROBLEMS IS LABOR PARTY SOLVING?

Lragir.am
01 June 06

The post of the chair of Health and Social Committee will be given
to the United Labor Party, the political party of Gurgen Arsenyan,
on an arrangement made inside the government. The leader of the ULP
told the news reporter of Lragir.am on May 31 that they are going to
nominate Mnatsakan Petrosyan, member of the ULP faction.

This is very interesting because Mnatsakan Petrosyan is genuinely
concerned about the social problems of citizens. Quite recently,
the National Assembly passed the law on cutting the lump-sum tax
on the import of cigars to Armenia. No doubt, the law improves the
social state of cigar importers, cutting the lump-sum tax from 1.5
million to half million drams per 1000 cigars. Moreover, the cigar
importer is a citizen of Armenia, consequently Mnatsakan Petrosyan
started thinking about the social state of the citizens long before
taking up the post of chair of committee. It is also possible that
he was nominated thanks to this.

The point is that Mnatsakan Petrosyan is nominated by the ULP
faction. It is said that Gurgen Arsenyan, the leader of the ULP
faction, imports cigars to Armenia. Gurgen Arsenyan is also said to
own the building built in front of the Conservatoire, which is going
to be a cigar club. However, it is also possible that all this is an
exaggerated picture of the possibilities of Gurgen Arsenyan, which
is far from being true. Consequently, the nomination of Mnatsakan
Petrosyan has nothing to do with the cigars, and it was done for
the sake of the Republic of Armenia and for the sake of well-being
of citizens.