In autumn Galust Sahakyan assured that just in one year there would be so much money in our country that we would not know what to do with it.
Yesterday he said the following in the National Press Club: “Armenia will develop rapidly and I believe in 2-3 years the participants of the rallies and demonstrations, who were interested in their rights mainly, will be sure that they were wrong,” said Galust Sahakyan and added, “We had a specific program and gave promises”. As for such promises, Galust Sahakyan believes that the RPA always does those promises. He also said that it is a credo for him not to ignore the vote of the public. “Certainly we can’t alienate the political parties, which have collected many votes; we should give them an opportunity to fulfill the promises they have given by making our best efforts together,” said Galust Sahakyan concerning the new quadrilateral coalition. We asked whether the factor of the first president of Armenia Levon Ter-Petrosyan has supported the formation of such a coalition but Galust Sahakyan said that he did not want to answer to that question. “I don’t want to answer to such questions because it was a page, which needs to be closed,” said Galust Sahakyan and cited one of Tumanyan’s ideas with some changes: “The bad can rule for ages too, but damn their bad work”. His ideas were not limited by this citation concerning the bad and he said that it was not a “struggle between the opposition and the government”. “A person appeared on the scene who wanted to create a new Armenia, which could be governed by a new format, and later give it as a gift to others,” said the RPA vice chairman. He says that there is no tension, because “the tension is not in the public, but in those people who want to get the power, who don’t want to lose their opportunity to get the power, those, who used to be in power in the past and now have missed those good times”. Mr. Sahakyan believes that there is only one way to fight that tension, which lies through rapid changes in the country, which exists in their program and needs to be implemented. We wander whether the recent changes to the law on rallies and demonstrations and the conduct of the security services during such demonstrations complied with the good principles of those changes. Answering to this question Galust Sahakyan said, “You know, it is not the way it should be done. Democracy is a complex of processes, which keeps the country in more secure conditions. If the country is in danger, it is not already about any changes in the law. Of course the authorities are the guarantee of the state, thus the authorities want to see the society order and also the state in more secure conditions”. We wander what he thinks about the fact that recently a bishop was taken to the police because of sitting on a bench in the North Avenue. We wander whether the bishop’s presence in that street could undermine the state security. “I think you should not take a specific example and make it a topic of discussions and introduce it as the whole picture. All we can see the processes well,” Galust Sahakyan said. Later he told about another example that he had witnessed: “yesterday a woman was yelling that she hadn’t received her social aid. But later it turned out that she had received that social aid and other money due to her, but she was still yelling. Should we make it a subject for political discussions?” asked galust Sahakyan. The latter said that that walking in streets does not contradict the recent changes to the law on public demonstrations. We asked whether he thought that there was no public discontent in the society. It turns out that no. He says that if there is no public discontent, the country cannot develop. Always there should be some public discontent. Answering to the question whether wouldn’t it be better to look for the reasons in the political system Galust Sahakyan said that if people are hungry it is impossible to strengthen any systems because the hungry people are always interested in their bread but not in systems. As for the other things, he thinks those are just “European terms”. “First of all people need to live. Hungry people don’t recognize your system or any other systems. We should give them their daily bread so that they can move the political system. As far as you have not done that, all the things are just European terms”.