Today during a discussion on staff policy at the National Press Club (NPC), Garik Keryan, the head of the chair of political institutions and processes of the Yerevan State University, remembered Arshak Sadoyan’s words, which according to him, had become a proverb – he had better be a member of the Pan-Armenian National Movement (PANM), even if he is a “mop”. Developing that idea, Petros Makeyan, the leader of the Democratic Motherland Party and a member of the Armenian National Congress (ANC), stated that this slogan about a “mop” had diminished to the level of a “floorcloth” for the past 10 years.
Aravot.am inquired from Mr. Makeyan who the candidates for being labeled “floorcloth” were, according to him. In response to that, Mr. Makeyan stated that he had given a general assessment and added, “Guess any minister, he is oligarch, isn’t he? Can he advocate the public interest? Point at any minister – if he has a 10-year experience, he is a bigger oligarch, if he has a 3-year ministerial experience, he is a newly-born oligarch.” I tried to clarify whether every minister was a candidate for being labeled a “mop”, in Mr. Makeyan’s opinion, he answered, “Guess anyone starting with the Prime Minister. What has the Prime Minister done? He bankrupted the country, along with Kocharyan’s family, due to his dollar-dram game while holding the office of Central Bank President and now he destroys the economy through various pompous resolutions and decisions under the mask of reforms, but we have a decaying, emptying country. To say it, referring to a certain person, is offensive, I don’t want to offend anyone, this refers to the whole system.”
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