After the surprise dismissal of Rustam Badasyan from the position of the SRC president, they were waiting with bated breath to see who would be the next SRC president. He was a knowledgeable manager and was practical - what he assigned had to be carried out.
He writes about thisMediahub.am:During this period, the SRC was also worried that the head of the SRC, Romanos Petrosyan, would suddenly not come to the SRC, because during this period his name was being circulated as a possible candidate for the SRC president.
Now in SRC they can breathe easy, because it became known that Eduard Hakobyan, who currently holds the position of Deputy Minister of Finance, will be appointed as SRC president.
33-year-old Hakobyan, who is a macroeconomist by profession, is a staff member who has grown from the numbers of his predecessors in the finnakh. During the reign of minister Vardan Aramyan, he was the deputy head of the macroeconomic department of the ministry, then the head of the department and reached the level of deputy minister.
Therefore, they know him well in the SRC, which is in organic contact with Finnach, and have a positive opinion about their future leader.
It can be said that all the more or less professional personnel of this government are mostly from the former, and Eduard Hakobyan is no exception. But being a professional personnel is not enough to work in Nikol Pashinyan's government the political team of the person who appointed him to that position has ordered the public.
In his case, it is more about the budget policy. In particular, it was Eduard Hakobyan, as a macroeconomist, who presented the 2025 budget project. According to experts in the field, it is a very unrealistic or difficult to implement budget was drawn up, which may have been a political directive.
According to our information, Rustam Badasyan had a conflict with the government and the Ministry of Finance, because in recent years, they say, the SRC did not consult the SRC when preparing the budget. as the body that implements the policies it has developed and the figures set in the draft budget.
There is a hypothesis that the reason for Badasyan's release was precisely this, that he said that this is not a realistic budget, and the State People's Committee cannot implement it in 2025. to implement the figures based on the draft budget.
As a result, he wrote an application for dismissal and left. Now he intends to continue his activities in the private sector. And since it was the Deputy Minister of Finance Eduard Hakobyan, it is said that Nikol Pashinyan offered him the position of SRC chairman. come and implement the budget he wrote.
He said: "You wrote it, you do it."
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