Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan compared his administration period with the administration period of the Pope, noting that everyone has to pay taxes.

I consider myself a person of deep faith. Today, on February 14, the RA Prime Minister mentioned this in his concluding speech during the discussion of the government’s program in the National Assembly Nikol Pashinyan:

“I consider myself a follower of the Armenian Apostolic Church, a faithful follower at that. But now I think that in the historical context now are the same times as during the time of the King Pope. What he was saying was you have to pay taxes. He said: if you have taken all our men and women and filled the monasteries and nunneries, then who should work for the economy of our country? Who should be the soldier of our country’s army? They said: you are a traitor, you are anti-national. We also say, dear people, you have to pay taxes, they are upset,” declared Pashinyan.

He emphasized that yes, emergency buildings will not be built until there is a cash register. “I mean, does anyone think, is there going to be prosperity without the confirmation of legality? Or do they still want the super-prime ministerial system, so they say, oh, the deputy said the building is in emergency, Poghosik should solve these issues quickly, you know, half of them should join the party, a list in the elections. Is that the system you want?

Today, there are 55 emergency buildings of the 4th class in Armenia, and people live in all of them, and 15 billion drams are needed for this. 30 billion drams are needed to increase pensions by 5 thousand drams. I say yes, whoever doesn’t hit the cash register, both the citizen and the shop worker, lowers the combat effectiveness of our army. At one time they said that the government is a robber, now we say that I personally have no personal goals in this matter.