I was always surprised how people who were in the system of power and daily praised this power, as soon as they were expelled from the system, literally in one day, became highly oppositional, thereby putting a cross on their previous activity. Wasn’t everything great yesterday when you were in power? So how did it all fall apart in one day?
It is as surprising as the so-called “rat race” when the government changes and the members of the former government team try to prove to the new owners that they were always dissidents; they fought against vices from the inside; they did not have an arena to manifest their crystal principality.
But when the government does not change, and the elements removed from the ruling team attack their former teammates, it creates a more, so to speak, dramatic situation and once again proves how cruel politics is.
For the first time, I was very impressed when Ashot Manucharyan, a member of the “Karabakh” committee, after being removed from his position, went to the square and, during a rally, called the members of the same committee “rogue” and “prostitute,” it was 1994. Over the next thirty years, many such incidents occurred.
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The last case I remember was Hayk Marutyan, who, for some reason, became disliked by Pashinyan and was immediately accused of meeting with Seyran Ohanyan. After being removed from office, he became a sharp critic of the government. You probably haven’t forgotten the “ideological evolution” of Davit Sanasaryan, either.
The next one may be the former Minister of Health, currently MP Arsen Torosyan, who until recently was making fiery speeches tearing the mask of the opposition. It is not excluded, however, that some shades of those speeches were not to the prime minister’s liking, and the anti-corruption committee found waste in Torosyan’s former deputy, Gevorg Simonyan, three years after the covid pandemic.
Those who have lived in Armenia for the past three decades know that such cases cannot be initiated without high-level “permission.” Even now, Torosyan makes sharp critical posts on Facebook, stating that our state system is not working well. Perhaps the system crashed precisely two days ago; until then, it ran like a well-oiled machine.
These changes in the government system do not excite me; we should at least postpone these games and realize that we are living on the threshold of new military conflicts.
Aram ABRAHAMYAN
