“A citizen is not fine material,” said a well-known classic who liked to climb speedometer posts and cover cameras with scotch tape.
And now the biometric passport fee set by his government is AMD 28,650, which is 9.45% of the average monthly gross salary. Almost one tenth for one passport. The same comparison by country. Developed countries: Germany: 1.26%, Poland: 1.59%, Canada: 2.12%, Great Britain: 2.19%, France: 2.25%, USA: 2.69%. Former USSR countries: Belarus: 3.34%, Moldova: 5.07%, Azerbaijan: 5.44%, Russia: 5.98%, Uzbekistan: 6.21%, Kyrgyzstan: 6.71%, Georgia: 6.93%, Kazakhstan: 7.80%, Tajikistan: about 30.45%. In this comparison, only Tajikistan has a higher index than Armenia. And our citizen allocates about 7.5 times more portion of his salary for passport than in Germany, and 36% more portion than in Georgia.
This once again shows that for Nikol Pashinyan’s government, the citizen is good material for fines, taxes, taxation and in general, LEGITIMATED CORRUPTION. What happens? An RA citizen should pay a substantial amount from his family budget to some private company (whose deal with Pashinyan’s government still needs to be verified) to remove the image of Mount Ararat from his passport?
Would they bring Armenia closer to the EU, which they themselves know is not realistic, as revealed by Nikol’s former PSC Armen Grigoryan? This is Nicole’s whole character: to lure people with deceptively high ideals and “technically” get into their pockets with the help of high-pitched noise.
Levon Zurabyan, Vice-President of the ANC Party
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