As we have already informed, Serzh Sargsyan, candidate for prime minister, who has been the President of Armenia for the last 10 years, held a speech in the special sitting of the National Assembly.

In response to the question of one of the MPs he said he wanted to briefly explain what Armenia achieved during the 10-11 years.

He said in his speech that the oppositionists are talking about reducing the economy, but the statistics shows something else. For example, in the beginning of 2007 the GDP made 2 trillion 656 billion AMD, and in January 2017 – 5 trillion 580 billion AMD. This means it has increased for 2.1 times.

The GDP per capita in January 2007 amounted to 849 thousand AMD, and in the beginning of 2018 – to 1 million 883 thousand AMD. This means it has increased for 2.2 times.

Serzh Sargsyan also presented interesting facts about citizens’ deposits in commercial banks: if in January 2007 Armenian citizens had a deposit of 143.6 billion AMD in the banks, at the beginning of 2018 this figure amounted to 1 trillion 553 billion AMD.

He added that in order to prevent the fact that only rich people have deposits in Armenia, the savings of the majority of those depositors are up to AMD 7 million. About 1 million Armenian citizens have deposits in the banks.

Another indicator of the improving welfare of the population was the fact that in January 2007, 333 thousand cars were registered, and in January 2018 – the number of the cars totaled to 616 thousand.