VIDEO: When Will All This End? Pashinyan Responds to Auroranews

Currently, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is meeting with journalists. Auroranews addressed the Prime Minister, inquiring: “I am damaging my car due to open manholes and potholes; the roads are not equipped, there are no reflective signs, newly laid asphalt is damaged within a day or even an hour for the installation of water lines, and no one is penalized by the state for all this. I pay taxes, property tax, the potholes remain like this for months, and no responsible person is relieved of their duties or prosecuted. Do you consider this normal when a responsible official says they don't want to hear about potholes? Why is the state only penalizing us, why does it not penalize itself, the contractor that won the tender, the bureaucrat who is responsible for all this? Will all this ever end?”

The Prime Minister's initial response was brief: “Yes.” To the question of when, whether in 100 years, he replied, “Soon.”

Pashinyan stated that whenever he walks around Yerevan, he sends dozens of audio messages to responsible officials regarding the raised issues, and he knows that some of these issues are resolved promptly while others are not for various reasons.

“Do you remember when issues arose, I raised this question multiple times, saying that the citizen is not a material for fines, then I was told, ‘well, how is it, now is it material for fines?’” he explained, noting that a new logic has entered – a points system and responsibility under criminal law – to establish order.

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