"Strong Armenia": Samvel Karapetyan`s programs will end extreme  poverty in the country

ArmInfo.The revolutionary programs of Samvel Karapetyan, leader of the "Strong Armenia" bloc, will put an end to extreme poverty in the country and resolve an issue that has remained unaddressed for decades, as stated by  Marianna Ghahramanyan, spokesperson for the "Strong Armenia" party, on her Facebook page.

According to her, amid the political issues raised during the June 4  pre-election debates and the noise created by one person (referring  to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan - ed.), a critical part of  information went unnoticed: Samvel Karapetyan will make electricity  and water free for disadvantaged families in Armenia. Ghahramanyan  explained that this initiative to support socially vulnerable groups  will be implemented within the framework of the state fund  "Overcoming Poverty." "Let me remind you that through funds from this  very same foundation, families living in extreme poverty will receive  monthly assistance in the amount of 150,000 drams. These  revolutionary programs will allow Armenia's next Prime Minister,  Samvel Karapetyan, to end extreme poverty in our country and solve a  problem that has gone unaddressed for decades," the political force's  spokesperson stated.

In this regard, she recalled that 660,000 people in Armenia currently  live in poverty, approximately 200,000 of whom are children, and  around 30,000 people are on the brink of extreme poverty.   Kaghramanyan assured that these issues will be resolved specifically  through the programs of their political force.  "These programs will  allow us to eliminate extreme poverty in Armenia in a short period of  time, and overcoming poverty, as Samvel Karapetyan noted, will be a  matter of his personal honor. In a strong Armenia, no one will  struggle to put bread on the table. Armenia will be strong,"  Ghahramanyan concluded.

It is worth noting that Aram Vardevanyan, a member of the "Strong  Armenia" bloc, previously stated that in 2021, the poverty rate in  Armenia stood at 27%. Meanwhile, according to the pre-election  promises of the ruling Civil Contract party, this figure was supposed  to be cut in half. Instead, according to him, recent official data  shows the country's poverty rate stands at around 22%, with  approximately 30,000 people living in extreme poverty.