Why the Ombudsman accepted Gagik Jhangiryan’s offer and submitted his resignation
There is still one year and 2 months to go for the term of office for the RA Ombudsman Karen Andreasyan but he submitted his resignation. Many people already associate this resignation with the quarrel between him and RPA MP Samvel Farmanyan during the presentation of the Ombudsman’s report at the National Assembly, when words like immoral, order executor, unkempt, copy-paste doer and many other insulting words were voiced against each other. But in addition to Samvel Farmanyan, Karen Andreasyan was also criticized by RPA MP Margarit Yesayan and by the opposition as well. ANC MP Aram Manukyan blamed Karen Andreasyan is a polite and discreet person, he is not capable of deciding anything and seeks protection in the National Assembly, Gagik Jhangiryan said that Karen Andreasyan calls on but who cares for his calls, Alexander Arzumanyan reprimanded the Ombudsman for being absent from the session of the Committee on NA Human Rights Protection, this is not a Girl’s School to make démarche showing that he is offended of something.
At the National Assembly, Margarit Yesayan made a remark to Karen Andreasyan for the emotional response to the questions of the parliamentarian. “Some expressions are not in compliance to your position and it is not correct to answer to the parliamentarian’s questions in that way. Please, escape this tone in the next year’s report if you will be our HRD.” She also said that she would like for Armenia to have an ombudsman older by age, more experienced, richer in biography with a long run of a life cycle. Yesterday, in an interview with “Aravot”, in response to our questions of how she estimates Karen Andreasyan’s resignation, Margarit Yesayan expressed regret, “Frankly speaking, I’m very sorry for it, I do not have any information about the reasons and I cannot comment on due to what actions or results he resigned. I know Karen Andreasyan long time ago and consider him to be a very good lawyer and his human species is very acceptable for me, he is one of the literate, informed and professional young figures of our Republic who is very important for the advancement of Armenia. I am not aware of any details and I have no idea about the reasons of this resignation. Karen Andreasyan will better present why he did so. I’m sorry for it but I want to hope that he has resigned for a better job.”
To our question of whether she thinks there were pressures on him to resign, Margarit Yesayan replied, “I do not have any information about pressure, I am sure that Karen Andreasyan is the kind that he is unlikely to be affected by pressure. If he makes a decision, he does it independently and cool-heartedly.” RPA MP Ruzanna Muradyan also criticized the Ombudsman for wrong formulations in the report regarding the credit system in high schools, also for insulting the teachers saying that the quality of education in rural schools is low, they deliberately do not teach well because they are paid low. Ms. Muradyan, in an interview with us, assured that she has nothing against Karen Andreasyan and the Ombudsman should be able to accept healthy criticism. As for the pressures, the RPA lawmaker said that she does not share this viewpoint as there was no pressure against Karen Andreasyan but criticism to his report. Incidentally, only 2 months ago when Gagik Jhangiryan at the National Assembly offered the Ombudsman to resign because he does not enjoy his work, the latter was surprised and excluded it by stating that he does not know of anyone who would be able to do his job as effectively as he does. He said that when someone will emerge who will have specific plans of what to do in this situation, then he will begin thinking about the resignation.
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