What Will the New Government Look Like? Details on the Upcoming Changes

As is known, a Ministry of Internal Affairs is to be established with new powers, and former MP Hakob Simidyan is to be appointed as deputy minister there. Another change will relate to the powers of one of the deputy prime ministers, with the entire sector of territorial administration now under the leadership of Deputy Prime Minister Suren Papikyan, who is more experienced in this field.

In regard to the government program, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan had already spoken about it during the previous cabinet meeting. He suggested that the program be based on the pre-election platform of the 'Civil Contract' party. Previously, Nikol Pashinyan's government had presented two such programs, but we would not be mistaken to say that both failed.

Back in May 2018, Nikol Pashinyan promised billions in investments if he was elected; however, after the revolution, not only did we not see a significant increase in investments, but they actually decreased, amounting to $117 million, recording the lowest result since 2003. Per capita GDP almost did not increase between 2018 and 2020. While in 2018 the per capita GDP was $4,188, it barely rose to $4,269 in 2020—a mere 1.9 percent increase. Let’s see what promises the authorities will make this time,” the newspaper writes.

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