The Acting PM noted that during their meetings in the villages, people stated: “We wish we had work and could work”.
“Then, after a few inquiries, we find out that in the same village where we were asked for workplaces, there is a vacancy and the owner says that he has nor been able to employ anyone for two years because people do not want to work since they receive poverty benefits which equals 25,000 drams. It has come to the point that people are slaughtering their cows so that they can receive poverty benefits, or they do not buy a TV so that can receive poverty benefits,” he said.
According to Pashinyan, 350,000 people are employed in Armenia and they need to provide for 800,000 people.
“800 thousand people demand from those 350 thousand, 350 thousand people are working quite hard, and 800 thousand people want them to get out of their way and work even harder,” he stressed.