Observations regarding the fact that MP Konjoryan’s wife is the director of Haypost are mostly focused on the job offer she received. This is understandable, considering that it is practically not even a salary, people are engaged in their small or medium-sized business from morning to night, but they are not able to increase their monthly income to 10,000 dollars.

But, for example, the director of a company that is also withheld from these people’s taxes receives 10,000 dollars, and he actually manages the company inefficiently, because it works at a loss.

But, with all that, the fact that the deputy’s wife can be the executive director of a state company is key. This is an obvious conflict of interest. And it doesn’t matter how much salary the director receives. The fact that a wife can be a deputy and her husband a director of a state company, or vice versa, a wife can be a director and her husband a deputy, should be excluded.

It should be excluded at least at the level of political culture, if not at the legislative level. Either the parliamentary mandate or the opportunity to be a director should be kept.

Because it seems that if the salary is 1000 dollars instead of 10 thousand, there would be no problem or noise.

Analyst Hakob Badalyan

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