Daniel Ioannisyan, Coordinator of the “Informed Citizens’ Union” NGO, considers the Republican MP Hakob Hakobyan’s scandalous views on the price rise on the background of poverty as a manifestation of cynicism.
Let us remind you, that the Republican MP told that the poor spend less and consequently the poor spontaneously will have to avoid buying the expensive goods. “Poor people have a habit avoiding buying expensive items. It is self-defense instinct,” he said.
“It reminds me of the famous statement of Marie Antoinette when before the Great French Revolution, she was told that people had no bread to eat, she replied if they have no bread, let them eat cakes. Marie Antoinette’s life ended up being beheaded, I do not want Hakob Hakobyan to be beheaded, but the degree of his cynicism reminds of Marie Antoinette’s cynicism. Let him think for several times before expressing such nonsense”, said Daniel Ioannisyan.
According to him, the price rise cannot not to be tangible for socially vulnerable stratum: “For people who enter the store and say, 300 grams of cheese, please, because if you cut 50 grams more I cannot afford to pay, the price rise is too tangible. It is the socially safer stratum who are bothered by the price rise not so much”.
Arpine SIMONYAN
