Prime Minister tours Yerevan supermarkets
After today’s cabinet meeting, Armenian Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan paid surprise visits to a number of supermarkets in Yerevan to monitor the prices on the spot.
Hovik Abrahamyan’s spokesperson Gohar Poghosyan posted the respective photos on her Facebook page. They show the PM touring stores and watching currency exchange rates.
At the cabinet meeting, Hovik Abrahamyan instructed head of the State Commission for the Protection of Economic Competition Artak Shaboyan to monitor the situation on the consumer market and brief him on the results every day. “The government will not tolerate unfounded price hikes,” he said.