A few days ago, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced that he is reducing the number of official cars, and as proof of this he publishedvideo, how he personally deletes the list of official cars belonging to the state with a pen, while not making public which car or whose "podavat" he considers unnecessary luxury.
And it is very interesting that one of the vehicles considered subject to reduction was on that list, but Pashinyan was bypassed for some reason.
of Euromedia24according to information, that list also included the car "Prado jeep" with license plate number 110 HH 01 serving the Speaker of the National Assembly Alen Simonyan, which, according to our reliable source, is not used for Alen Simonyan's work "run", but serves his mother Hovhannisyan Marine and to other members of the family of the President of the National Assembly.
The Euromedia24 reporter tried to verify this information from the President of the National Assembly, Alen Simonyan, who, however, refused to answer, not even listening to our question until the end. "I don't give interviews over the phone," he said and hung up the phone.
We turned to the staff of the NA President, but to this simple question, the head of the NA Staff-Secretary General Davit Arakelain avoided saying yes or no, despite the existence of the NA balance sheet, but he should have known about the podavat traveling outside the NA building for personal matters as an official and he should have known and prevented it: in order not to allow the supposed pulverization of the state's resources, because that decision is in the field of his competences and responsibility.
And if the information did not correspond to the reality, then logically he should have denied it at once, without unnecessary delay, without fear and without the formal requirement of requesting a written request, this tool is usually used by officials to delay time as a self-defense measure.
We contacted the Speaker of the National Assembly, Movses Harutyunyan did not give a direct answer, stating that he needs time for clarification. We received a follow-up call before the publication of the article, the Speaker of the National Assembly Alen Simonyan will shortly make a Facebook post and will inform that he is reducing some official vehicles, and that list also includes the car "Prado jeep" 110 HH 01 reported by Euromedia24's source, which according to our source, the Speaker of the National Assembly he is serving his mother until now. By the way, to the clarifying question, he still denies the information about serving Alen Simonyan's mother, Movses Harutyunyan, the spokesman of the National Assembly President, said:
"I don't know the details about that, but I can say with certainty that the car you mentioned is also being reduced."
In fact, the result of our journalistic effort was that the official vehicle was reduced after the information disclosed by our source and our inquiries.
Ani Nerkaryan
