Starting from today different assumptions and hypotheses will be voiced as due to which government or “non-government” intrigues the Prime Minister has resigned, what signals had come from the Kremlin, and which clan will be possessing the economic (corruption) levers from this time onward: the same one or a little different one.
Even though all of it is quite interesting, however, this will nowise affect the life of us, the ordinary citizens. Of course, many people mistakenly believe that their life depends on how their prime minister or the government is: competent or incompetent, from the Republican Party or PAP, “offshore” or “non-offshore”. Anyway, this is just an illusion.
I keep insisting that regardless of whether the next government will be a Republican, PAP, Kocharyan, technical (“professional”) or “national accord” (like Noah’s Ark: a pair from each kind), the life of our citizens will neither be significantly improved nor deteriorated. The problem is not with the prime minister or the government, the problem is that the whole government system is criminal, and is created for corruption and plunder. No single person and no Party can change it; they will have to do approximately the same as the current government was doing, and what the previous government was going by deserving the people’s complaints and curses.
And the reason of it is that the vast majority of the population of Armenia is very indifferent to the state and state institutions. This main mass is waiting for someone to feed them, or, at the most, will create jobs for them. If this workplace creates an opportunity to steal, they are satisfied (although they are grumbling a bit). Such workplace is the small and big state position. If there is no opportunity to steal, they accuse the government that “it does never think about this people,” they are filled with jealousy and hatred to the rich, and, if possible, “flee away” from Armenia. People do not feel them citizens of Armenia statehood; this is the root cause of the criminal system.
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I know that I am not writing populist things, but it is a fact, the proof of which is on the surface: how many government officials have been changed over these 24 years.
ARAM ABRAHAMYAN
