It is difficult to be a politician. If sitting in Yerevan they are talking about the firing in our border areas, people may say about them, look, they are sitting in their cozy corners and are talking a large about our countrymen living on the border. And now, not giving turn to each other and to some extent competing with each other, they go to the border, people may say, look, they have gone and are photographed, and pretend allegedly they are interested in people’s conditions. And most importantly, there is a rationale grain in both judgments. After the rise in electricity tariffs, many said that they should at least compensate the people for whom 1000 drams per month is a serious amount of money.
But, yesterday, when the government decided to allocate this amount of money to vulnerable people, many said whom they are teasing, what a 1000 dram. Although, I think that in this case the problem is not with low or high tariff, but the fair price that reflects the value of the specific product, and for which, we, the citizens, will obtain the right to demand quality service. Otherwise, no one at present, including the Republican MPs, are sure that electricity kilowatt really is worth 42 drams. Distrust, here’s the word that describes our situation. We do not trust our MPs, who are going to or not going to the border villages; we do not trust the government, regardless of whether it compensates or not. We, naturally, do not trust the Public Services Regulatory Commission, doubting that defining the price it is guided not by economic but quite different calculations. We are not sure that dismantled and re-numbered stones of Afrikyan’s house would be rebuilt in somewhere. And we have substantiations for such distrust, as since 2000 and onwards, nearly three dozen such buildings were dismantled re-numbered, and the destiny of numbered stones is unknown. Of course, people born after 1974 do not believe that people are collecting money from them now to live better 45 years later. Read these lines and think for a moment on whether there is a political or non-political figure, whom you believe, and his word or deed does not raise doubts in you.
ARAM ABRAHAMYAN
