Gagik Tsarukyan stated that in recent weeks he visited the villages of different marzes and shared his impressions.
1. People want widespread changes. There are problems accumulated over the years. no one tries to solve it, or talk to people, or offer a solution.
2. 80-90 percent of problems will be solved in a very short time in case of proper management. You just need to understand the problem and find the right solution.
3. We have a brilliant people: hardworking, honest, really proud. People are broken by a difficult life, people are disappointed that there is no one who can solve their problems.
4. The villager was left alone with his problems. This is unacceptable.
People raise new questions during conversations, which must be included in our programs.
You know that the pre-election program of the Prosperous Armenia party is called “Offer to Armenia”. This program is not written in closed rooms and we say: this is it, but the opposite: we go to the people, we go to villages, cities, we listen to people’s worries, problems, and also the suggestions for solutions, and then the specialists bring it all together, present their solutions in the program.
Now the people have asked me to pay attention to several issues.
a. Loans. people should be helped. There isn’t a family that doesn’t have loans, the interest of which is paid for years, but the principal amount doesn’t even arrive. This issue should be resolved, after all, the banks should serve our citizens, not the citizens – the banks.
b. People are very worried about the fate of consumption of agricultural products. They are talking in the city offices, filming, collecting political points, but the peasant is worried about what will happen to his crop in case of possible problems with the EATM. They took those loans for so many years, planted a garden, set up a greenhouse, now they have started to harvest, and there is a fear in people’s hearts that if political problems start, the peasants will be the first to suffer. That was one of the first questions I asked in every village I entered.
c. The point system of fines for taxi drivers. It is not right to define the same scoring system for everyone. A person drives a taxi from morning to night, maintains his house with righteous sweat, we put that person in a desperate situation for a violation of a lie. How can it be so? The point system of taxi drivers and those who just go to work from home cannot be the same.
d. The next problem, which is particularly acute in Yerevan. the property tax problem. It is a dishonest law, it cannot be done like this. The law must be changed. Our team will come up with a specific proposal.
We will continue to visit villages, cities, yards, houses, we will talk to people, listen, formulate the problems, together we will write our offer to Armenia.
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