“During Nikol Pashinyan-Serzh Sargsyan meeting, when Serzh Sargsyan said, “you have not learnt from March 1”, the public perceived it as a threat, but I see another and deeper phenomenon in it,” announced the television host of political programs at “Shant TV” channel and the editor-in-chief of “Aravot” newspaper, Aram Abrahamyan, during the discussion on the latest political developments in Armenia, at “Caucasus Institute”.
He continued the aforementioned announcement, adding: “I believe, by saying “you”, Serzh Sargsyan implied himself. That is, by saying “you have not learnt”, he actually wanted to say “I have learnt from March 1, and neither I am able to, nor I want to repeat it”… His sentence was something like an application of dismissal.”
According to Aram Abrahamyan, to say that the way the public treated Serzh Sargsyan was wholly fair will not be correct: “If I publish on Facebook that Serzh Sargsyan has virtues alike, do you imagine how many people will swear on in the comments..? But I continue thinking that way. Why did the former two presidents appoint him as the Minister of Defence? It means he had respective virtues.”
As Aram Abrahamyan believes, the attitude and the discontent of the Armenian public towards the three presidents has been almost the same: “In the summer of 1996, when presidential elections were to take place, Vano Siradeghyan told me, “But the people love Levon at the bottom of their hearts.” But there was nothing like that at least after 1991.”
As regards the new authorities of the Republic of Armenia, Aram Abrahamyan emphasized: “It enjoys public legitimacy. Yes, at the moment we have an authority in which we believe and which we love, and that authority bears a responsibility for what it does.”
