Yesterday, the Mayor Taron Margaryan made two contradictory statements regarding the fare rise of route transport. In the afternoon, during the meeting with the council members of the Republican Party, PAP and “Hello Yerevan” factions, he announced,- “If we want to have a civilized transport system, it is impossible to provide it with 100 AMD”. Then the mayor came up with a message diametrically contradicting to his announcement. Aravot.am inquired from the member of Yerevan council, secretary of “Hello Yerevan” faction David Sanasaryan as to who made the decision of leaving transport fare the same. He said,- “I do not know whose decision it was, but the fact that there were contradictory statements made, it leads to the conclusion that Taron Margaryan was not aware of his decision made in the evening. At the meeting with us, he was confidently saying that he is not going to retreat and the price for transport will be 150 drams, with the exception of a few social groups, everyone is going to pay 150 drams.” To another next question whether this allows us to conclude that the decisions were taken from one center, D. Sanasaryan answered,- “I am not new to this, this is not that I must know that all the decisions are coming from Baghramyan 26, after that I do not know who makes the decision. Regarding the Mashtots Park, Taron was trying to put up a hard struggle, but he was eased by his superior. Serzh Sargsyan has told: “It’s not a good thing”. As for the fact of making T. Margarian a scapegoat, our interlocutor expressed such an opinion: “I do not rule out, but I never have pity on any official, I will not have, because given official must be ready if the latter is assigned in such a manner, it may come a day that with such an arbitrary decision he would be dismissed, like the other preceding mayors, when the decision was made at the President’s Office that they should not be mayors.” D. Sanasaryan did not rule out the possible resignation of Taron Margaryan, and said,- “For a moment I think that so much time working on Taron, they tried to present him as a king, now who will be the political figure from the council members that will comes to replace him. I do not see such a man over there. Though I do not give serious assessment regarding the organizational capacity of Taron, but I do not also see the second one, who will come to replace him.” And to the question who benefits from Taron Margaryan’s discrediting, D. Sanasaryan responded,- “I feel that there are serious problems within their party.”
Tatev HARUTYUNYAN
