AZG Armenian Daily #102, 04/06/2005
Concern
‘RA GOVERNMENT DOOMS THOUSANDS OF PENSIONERS TO HUNGER’
Accumulation of Signatures against Social Cards
RA Government had doomed to hunger thousands of pensioners. This
statement was made by the Armenian Constitutional Law Enforcement
Center on June 2.The government doesn’t deprive them of the right
to receive pensions, but they don’t pay it, as the pensioners have
no social cards. According to the data, submitted by RA Social
Security Minister, 600 thousand Armenian citizens refused to take
social cards. Gevorg Manukian, Head of ACLE, applied to RA National
Assembly for permission to apply to RA Constitutional Court to define
the law on Social cards. The appeal was signed by 30 deputies of RA
Parliament. They failed to accumulate the required 44 signatures. The
representatives of ACLE submitted a bill on making amendments to the
abovementioned law, accumulating 70 signatures given by the lectors of
ARF Dashnaktsutiun and Republican Party of Armenia. ACLE is determined
to organize a large-scale accumulation of signatures. The members of
the center are sure that they will gather thousands of signatures,
as the law was forced to the people. They believe that this action
will turn into an unofficial referendum for the law on social cards
and RA citizens will vote “against” that.
By Nana Petrosian
