The Government Ignores Letters from MPs and the Public: "Zhoghovurd"

According to the "Zhoghovurd" newspaper, the government and several state agencies have decided to leave unanswered the letters sent by MPs, the public, and other state bodies, believing their work to be of great importance in recent times.

It is unclear why officials in the government or ministries believe that their legitimacy grants them the right to display such dismissive behavior.

MP Ani Samsoyuanyan from the "Enlightened Armenia" faction has also sent letters to the government but has not received responses for months. "When the government report was presented by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, I mentioned this to him and thought it would serve as a wake-up call, a call to respond to the letters sent. But that did not happen, and I am still waiting for responses to the letters, the information of which is, so to speak, aging and becoming problematic. I wrote letters in February and have been waiting for a response since then," said the opposition MP.

According to Ani Samsoyuanyan, she still does not want to include the unresponsive agencies in her personal "blacklist," believing that they will eventually respond to her letters. "If they don’t respond, that is a problem, and it also negates all the statements about making the government’s work more effective. There cannot be any work, no activity that is more important than responding to an MP's letter, because we are a parliamentary country, and parliamentarians are the overseers of the executive. They are obligated to respond to our letters first. So, this negligence, shall I say, contempt, indifference, greatly hinders our parliamentary work as well," concluded Samsoyuanyan.

According to our sources, citizens of Armenia who send letters also face the same fate. After a long wait for responses, they find themselves forced to take to the streets for protests, as was the case yesterday when residents of Vardablur demonstrated in front of the National Assembly for the lack of response to their letters.

Read the full article in today’s newspaper.