“[The intrigue brewed] during the first [NA] reading of the bill on Remuneration of State Officials, [and] in connection with the amount of their salaries.
“The government has set an equal [monthly] salary—1,190,000 drams [approx. $2,940]—for [both] the NA speaker and the PM.
“[But] the MPs representing Hovik Abrahamyan’s team were claiming that since the NA speaker is the second [highest-ranking] face, [and] the PM [is] the third, the salary of the NA speaker must be at least slightly higher than [that] of the PM.
“The government, however, introduced the bill for the second reading, and it did not make any changes on this part,” Haykakan Zhamanak writes.
