If one follows the news summary on websites, our newspapers write exceptionally about expected discharges and appointments. Yesterday, for example, I read such news about Heghine Bisharyan, Hermine Naghdalyan, Gagik Beglaryan, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and the Head of Supervisory Service of the President of the Republic of Armenia. One may think that the population of our country lives for knowing whether, for example, Hermine Naghdalyan will be the Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly or whether they will find an office for Gagik Beglaryan, and people’s prosperity and happiness depends on that. Journalists close to politics probably often meet, drink coffee, then they turn cups over and decide whose half profile is imprinted on that cup, Armen Gevorgyan’s or, let’s say, Hasmik Poghosyan’s. They make their “analyses”, according to that.
It turns out even such a modest and non-pretentious person, as I am, can be imprinted on the walls of that cup. Yesterday one of my acquaintances inquired, “is it right that you will be given an office?” “What office?” I asked with surprise. “MP”, asked my acquaintance. (By the way, he wasn’t the first to ask me that ridiculous question.) Although his definition was not legally correct, it was actually quite right – being an MP in Armenia is exactly an “office” that “is given”, if you behave accordingly. That is the reason why being an MP is quite a dishonorable activity – I am convinced that the National Assembly for me and not only for me is represented by Navo and Yuvetsi Karo and not by Davit Harutyunyan or Stepan Safaryan.
If the real decisions are made not in the parliament hall, but in the presidential residence at best and around a table with kebab on it at worst, MP work becomes pointless and meaningless. And why only MP work? Even people who are far apart from that common psychology of nowadays top people, communicating with them, so to say, fit in with the majority. Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan is a good example. Could he imagine 20 years ago that he would be drinking alcohol listening to Tata’s music?
In a nutshell I won’t be an MP. Even if they nationally ask me.
ARAM ABRAHAMYAN
