In the session of the government on February 8, a decision was made, which, of course, stems from the legislative basis, but at the same time it also reflects all the splendor and misery of the Armenian political reality. Thus, 4 parties that participated in the 2021 NA extraordinary election will receive 520.7 million drams of support from the state budget of Armenia in 2024. According to that decision, the ruling party “Civil Agreement” received 268.3 million drams, the “Republic” party – 38.7 million drams, the “Prosperous Armenia” party – 50.4 million drams and the “Hayastan” bloc – 163.2 million drams. Of course, this practice has been legislated in Armenia for many years.
But perhaps the whole question is that it is time to end this practice so that political forces are not a burden for the state budget and taxpayers. How many important things could be done with 520 million drams? Instead, that money goes to political forces, which on the one hand manage enormous financial resources, of course, mostly at the level of their leadership groups, but in general, what are these political parties, if not just tools to serve the various ambitions of their leaders and leadership groups?
Therefore, why should serving these ambitions also cost the state budget, or as the Prime Minister says, “the people’s pocket”? The people’s pocketbook should serve the people, not the needs of party leadership groups. Even more so, there is also a rather glaring injustice here, a violation of the principle of political competition, if we take into account the fact that the political forces in question “passed” the milestone of receiving state support, so to speak, compared to other forces, because they essentially had more financial opportunities and administrative levers, in other words, they are more suitable to fit into the framework of the financial, economic and political conjuncture.
Of course, Armenia today has enormous other problems, but in the end, 520 million drams, for example, could have been directed to the solution of those problems, to provide an objective, useful, permanent or long-term solution, which may be small in the scope of general necessary solutions, but compared to the incurred expenses, it would have a multiple more difference and meaning.
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