RAPA CHAIRMAN: MANY PEOPLE IN DIASPORA ARE SURPRISED THAT PRIME MINISTER’S POST WAS ENTRUSTED TO TIGRAN SARGSIAN

Noyan Tapan

M arch 4, 2009

YEREVAN, MARCH 4, NOYAN TAPAN. According to Haroutiun Arakelian,
the Chairman of the Ramkavar-Azatakan Party of Armenia (RAPA),
the USD exchange rate should have been raised not at once but
gradually. Saying this at the March 4 press conference he also stated
that government’s other mistake was directing the tax pointer to small
and medium-sized business. "Our Prime Minister imagined he were Prime
Minister of Switzerland," H. Arakelian said clarifying that the same
strict approach can be used to all strata without exception only
in such developed countries as Switzerland. According to him, the
Prime Minister did not have courage to demand taxes from monopolists
receiving superprofit. "In general, never hit a man when he is down,
therefore I will not speak about the bankrupt Prime Minister," RAPA
Chairman said. He also added that many people in Diaspora are surprised
that the government head’s post was entrusted to Tigran Sargsian.

Speaking about RAPA’s last congress, H. Arakelian
called wrong the publications in press, according to which
RAPA-Dashink-Liberal-Progressive Party of Armenia-National Rebirth
parties’ unification failed to take place.

These wrong ideas, according to the speaker, emerged because the
above mentioned forces’ former leaders were not present at the
congress. "However, one should understand that not individual political
figures, but party members joined together," H. Arakelian said.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress