Office to be established in Armenia’s parliament for dealing with budgetary issues
25.03.2015,
17:58
The National Assembly of Armenia passed today at the second and final reading a bill implying establishment of an office inside the parliament for dealing with budget-related issues.
YEREVAN, March 25. /ARKA/. The National Assembly of Armenia passed today at the second and final reading a bill implying establishment of an office inside the parliament for dealing with budget-related issues.
The authors of the bill think that after the separation of the Control Chamber from the National Assembly the parliament actually was left without mechanisms of shriveling the government budget.
Deputy Finance Minister Vakhtang Mirumyan said in this connection that the legal status of the office and its experts will be specified.
He said the office may be established this year and the establishment will be paid from the money allocated for the parliament from the government budget.
Gagik Jangiryan, an MP from the opposition Armenian National Congress, called this decision anti-constitutional, since such an office is fit to countries with parliamentary governance.
Naira Zohrabyan, head of Prosperous Armenia party's faction in the National Assembly, said her party is opposed to the bill aimed at serving the interests of 'a certain group'.
The bill was passed by 88 MPs, 20 voted against it and four abstained.
The bill was designed by Parliament Speaker Galust Sahakyan, who is a member of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia, his fellow partisans Gagik Minasyan, Khosrov Harutyunyan, Samvel Nikoyan, Sukias Avetisyan, one member of Armenian Revolutionary Federation/Dashnaktsutyun Artsvik Minasyan, Orinats Yerkir party's Mher Shahgeldyan and former prime minister Hrant Bagratyan. ---0-----
