When commenting on the announcement on the 2013 budget rejection by the parliament opposition (Prosperous Armenia, Armenian National Congress, Heritage and Armenian Revolutionary Federation) the vice-president of ruling Armenian Republican Party parliament group Eduard Sharmazanov told Armenian News-NEWS.am that all over the world the party in power votes for the budget, the opposition - against.

“Even if there are 4-5 groups, they cannot beat us. We are coalition which won the elections, it is only natural that our budget will get accepted. It is also natural that they vote against it, but the only thing they do during all this period is criticizing, they do not come up with an alternative budget, which is bad,” Edward Sharmazanov said, noting that it is very easy to criticize, but they also need to come up with proposals.

He stressed that the 2013 budget is realistic, does not yield to the 2012 budget, expenditure has increased for security, while social programs are not cut.