“Red tape” was being cut, but if you go now, there is no economic activity.

Nikol Pashinyan builds his regional pre-election visits on the logic of presenting the “achievements” of the past 7-8 years and appearing accountable. What kind of economic success is Nikol Pashinyan entering the pre-election stage? 168․amin a conversation with NA opposition deputy, economist Tadevos Avetisyan.

First of all, he drew attention to the economic opportunities that were not capitalized and missed.

“In a specific period, any country, under any circumstances, has a certain economic activity, there are certain growths, there is a positive development, but is it enough or not, or was it close to the opportunity we had? If we answer the question, the answer will be negative,” the specialist noted and added, “after the Covid pandemic, we had a sharp decline and we were the only country in the region that was not able to recover from the economic decline of the previous year.”

And as for further increases, which were caused by an external factor, in particular, the Russian-Ukrainian war, they were not capitalized and did not become the basis for further investments and further growth. This is obvious because along with the weakening of that factor, we saw that economic activity also slows down inertially.”

The economist also drew attention to the fact that the pre-election promises of the previous elections failed, noting that the indicators that were announced years ago are far from reality today.

“Even in the case of raising pensions according to pre-election logic, they did not keep their promise, or if we look at the index of poverty reduction. they promised to reduce the poverty level twice, but compared to 2018, there is a slight decrease in the poverty level. They said that we should eliminate extreme poverty, but that is not the case.

They also did not fulfill the promise of raising the minimum wage. Or, they were talking about the 2.6 billion euro project, about the national air carrier, do you know what happened to ANIF, now it’s still the pre-election stage, and they are talking about investments again, but we witnessed the opening of many large enterprises when the red tape was cut, and now, if you go and look, not only there are no productions there, but also there is no economic activity at all,” concluded Tadevos Avetisyan.

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