The 2025 five-year plan of the government’s activities was launched in the parliamentary committees. performance report discussions. This is the last report of the five-year plan of this government, before the elections.

The danger of losing power is becoming more and more real and CP needs to create the impression of unprecedented achievements like air and water in order to somehow save the non-existent rating. They presented such a magnificent report that the reader will think that they have achieved world-class achievements. not a failure, not a failure, not a broken promise. All shortcomings, failures, unfulfilled promises and plans have been carefully noted.

The whole logic of the report is summarized in this naturalist.

“The year 2025 is the first calendar year since the independence of Armenia, when there were no casualties or injuries as a result of crossfire between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Peace was established between the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan on August 8, 2025. The year 2025 is the first year since independence, when emigration of RA citizens from the Republic of Armenia was replaced by immigration. A high economic growth (7.2%) was recorded, as a result of which in 2021-2025 The average annual GDP growth was 7.9 percent,” this is enough to make it clear what logic the entire government report is based on. They want to say that the peace they brought is already real, no more soldiers die on the border, the economy is flourishing, and emigrants are returning to Armenia.

All the points of the government’s program of activities, which were related to Artsakh, were implemented exclusively to the detriment of the Armenian people and to the benefit of Azerbaijan. At the cost of persistent efforts, they handed over Artsakh, “resolved” the conflict and boasted that they brought peace.

Even after that, as we are convinced every day from the statements from Azerbaijan, there is no peace. After that, they are proud that they brought peace. They brought “peace” at the price of surrendering Artsakh and breaking the resistance of their own people.

This is enough to evaluate the achievements of the government’s foreign policy. Now let’s turn to the economic “achievements”, which flooded the entire report like a flood.

They say that we not only fulfilled the promised average annual economic growth of 7 percent, but also exceeded it, instead of 7 percent, we achieved an average annual economic growth of 7.9 percent.

We are opening the government’s 2021-2026. the activity program and reads the economic targets set by the government.

“The minimum level of average annual GDP growth is 7 percent (9 percent in the case of a favorable external environment),” the government’s program literally reads.

It is needless to say how favorable the external environment has been for Armenia’s economy in recent years. The increases, which, in most cases, even if formal, were recorded, were mainly due to it.

And after that, the government did not reach its promised 9 percent average annual economic growth target. We still do not say what happened in the structure of the economy during that time.

The structure of the economy, which will create serious problems for further growth, has been made more vulnerable than ever. The largest branch of the economy is wholesale and retail trade, repair of cars and motorcycles. However, the weight of the manufacturing industry, which was committed to increase to 15 percent of the GDP in the course of these 5 years, like many other program commitments, was put on ice.

instead of 15 percent, in 2025 according to data, the processing industry made up only 11 percent of the GDP. 2021 It was 11.3 percent.

One more thing they turned the wheel backwards. And that means that they have endangered the future of the economy. Manufacturing industry is the basis of the economy, but trade has become the pioneer of the economy instead.

Not to mention that in 2020 the weight of manufacturing industry in the GDP was 12.7 percent.

Such “development” was provided in the field of processing industry and industry in general, but naturally there is no word about it in the report. Instead, they remembered that last year the volume of industrial output was 2017. increased by 100 percent. What did 2025 have to do with it? the report in 2017 with, it is not difficult to understand. they tried to create the impression of high growth.

And it is not the only case that they went – they arrived until 2017. Such comparisons are numerous in this report. They did not consider it appropriate to write about the unfulfilled obligations of the program in the report, instead, they tried to flourish the economic “achievements” with the indicators of 8 years ago.

In the same way, they probably did not consider it appropriate to write what they have brought to the head of agriculture in recent years and in general during the period of their rule, that the volumes of production of agricultural products have decreased for years. Last year there was a few percent increase, after 7 consecutive years of decline, that’s all they noticed, they didn’t notice the declines.

The only 0.3 percent overperformance of the budget’s tax revenues was specially remembered, and the indicator of taxes in GDP, which they failed to a great extent, was forgotten, although in this case, taxes-GDP is a much more important indicator. We have the fact that for the last 2 years, taxes-GDP has hardly changed, in 2023 was 24 percent, in 2025 – 24.07 percent. This means that the fight against the shadow economy and administration improvements have failed. At least in those 2 years no progress has been made.

According to the government’s activity plan, by 2026, that is, by the end of last year, 300 schools and 500 kindergartens should have been built and repaired. They should have not only built and repaired it, but also furnished it. At the end of last year, only one third of the schools and only half of the kindergartens had been built. There was not even a word about furnishing.

Poverty in the government’s 2021-2026 with the activity plan, they should reduce it by half, eliminate extreme poverty altogether. In case of halving, poverty in Armenia should have been 13%, it is almost 22%. 0.6 percent of the population is extremely poor. Hundreds and thousands of citizens continue to live in poverty.

Instead of easing the social condition of those people, the life of the representatives of the political power, state officials has improved dramatically, they have become the owners of properties and wealth, they receive millions of salaries and bonuses. That’s why they stuck to their seats and even after causing so many disasters, they don’t intend to leave.

HAKOB KOCHARYAN

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