"Fact" daily writes:
At least outwardly, Pashinyan's government is suffering from the public indignation and anger earned by Liul in return for multi-billion awards. The fact that Pashinyan and the CP are taking the public's just and justified indignation seriously is at least strange.
In other words, what did they expect, that people would rejoice and be happy that Pashinyan was awarded 11 or 12 million drams, that his ministers were awarded 6 or 7 million drams, that the masked and masked government pyramid received only awards of billions of drams from the state budget, that is, at the expense of taxpayers?
In that sense, we mark it as strange. They will reward themselves, they will enter the state budget and take as much as they can, and people will see it and say: wow, why are you taking so little, take more? This is how the public should react, what is it?
On the other hand, regardless of what poses Pashinyan and his handsomely paid, well-fed officials show in front of the cameras, their public behavior and speech suggest that they were not surprised at all, but were completely prepared for public outrage and prepared counter-statements.
But first let's go back to what happened, that is, to the question of what actually happened. What has happened is that the government that has almost doubled the state's debt to 14-15 billion dollars, has put the real economy of the country in front of serious problems, and has multiplied external threats many times, is giving itself a pre-holiday, one can also say, a huge pre-election reward.
This was done by an authority, a government led by Pashinyan and the rest of the "Pashinyans", under whose rule and as a result of the rule, the poverty rate in Armenia is 21.7% according to official data only. And what does that number mean, 21.7 percent poverty? And that means 649 thousand people.
In other words, every fifth person in Armenia barely makes ends meet, or rather, does not make ends meet. Here, in such a situation, Nikol Pashinyan and his ministers, his masked deputies are swimming in millions, and even more, they are clapping.
By the way, in addition to that, there is also 0.6 percent of extreme poverty (again, according to official data), that is, another 18 thousand people who not only do not make ends meet, but even those "ends" are not visible from their meager income platform.
And here, the number one guilty and responsible government of all this is irresponsibly rewarding itself. In essence, what Pashinyan and his CP have done does not have any literary, newspaper quality, such that they will not be held criminally responsible.
In such conditions, such opulences and sophistry are an unconcealed message to the public that the authorities themselves deeply despise society, taxpayers, the country's population and citizens, at whose expense, by the way, they live and are paid rewards.
What Pashinyan's government has done, to put it mildly, is a violation of basic norms of social justice and coexistence. With what heart, what face do they look at people? Although, what are we talking about?
Well, they read lolos anyway! They will definitely be rewarded, even more! But that is only one side of the matter. The other side of the issue is that they, perhaps guided by the best defense is offense approach, are overreacting to public outrage.
That is, they were prepared in advance. They have clearly realized that they are doing something bad, wrong and "inedible", so they have prepared themselves for a predictable barrage of criticism.
Actually. immediately after committing an act of social irresponsibility, moved on to an act of public disrespect. They have given themselves indescribable rewards without raising the pension of pensioners. They awarded more than 80,000 pensioners 1 month's pension (or about 7 thousand pensioners 1 year's pension). And after that, they still "sing", excuse me, they play "drums" on the drums.
And they say that they "brought peace". The country has been subjected to Turkish and Azerbaijani conditions, is being outsourced piecemeal to other countries, and is being rewarded internally. For what? Because they put 5000 young people to death?
Is that what they reward themselves for? Because they recognized Artsakh as Azerbaijani? Because they have achieved the depopulation of Armenian and Armenian-populated Artsakh for thousands of years? Is that what they were rewarded for? Or for the fact that Armenia's living space is being given to the enemy piece by piece, is there yet another hint that they will give it again...
In other words, they are doing good for someone else, but they are taking the tax (rent) from our people and taxpayers, and they are mocking those taxpayers, pensioners, society in general, saying: "we are officials, we should live fat and lucky, but you, the poor, are too much to be smeared with oil...".
What to do with such a power, such a government? Everyone will have to give the answer for himself...
ARMEN HAKOBYAN
