If you ask me what kind of positive staff changes have taken place in recent years, I would surely answer: the one that Vardan Ghukasyan was not given the chance to be elected a Mayor of Gyumri, and the one that Surik Khachatryan from dismissed from the Syunik governor’s office. Especially the last decision was matured long ago prior to assassination at the former governor’s house, the circumstances of which, it seems to me, are intentionally concealed by our law enforcement and the courts.
Many negative personnel appointments, of course, dominate these two positive events. For example, it is not clear for me what specific talents Aram Harutyunyan is gifted, who was in the beginning holding the office of the Minister of Urban Development by RoL party’s quota, and then without any quota, held the office of the Minister of Nature Protection and now has become the Governor of Kotayk Marz. What? Is he the Renaissance titanium, who equally has a clue to different sectors? And such “indestructible people” who are not notable with anything for years and decades, keep going with their tenure.
Where do the states take their “staff reserve”? In the Soviet period, there was a special scale of ranks, which was starting, let’s say, from the instructor of a Regional Committee of the Young Communist League, good or bad, with bribe or no bribe, it was a state governance school. It was more advantageous when people were passing to leading position from the production (for example, Karen Demirchyan). Understanding the nuances of this or that product was preferable than “trying to outsmart” on ideological themes. The scale of ranks is available also in the developed countries, of course, without the Soviet ideological components.
After the revolution in 1988-90, bright individuals came to power in Armenia, people who were holding public office based on beliefs and not by some career ambitions. It is clear that sooner or later were to be substituted by duller and greyer people. Reserves were few, either the same Communists, whose notions, as a rule, were outdated, or the “fought guys” and those whom these “fighters” (true or false) were sponsoring.
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It was not yet the best option. The habit of solving the issue by the “use of force” moved to civil life, and the “sponsors” were usually weak-willed, on the one hand, and on the other hand, were able to cheat the “fighters”. As a result, a perfect cynicism and criminal atmosphere has been formed in the state government in 20 years.
…If Surik Khachatryan is reappointed in the office of Syunik Governor, it would be, like our publicists like to write, a “clangorous slap” to the public.
ARAM ABRAHAMYAN
