As you remember the Dashnaktsutyun being part of the government coalition but meanwhile playing an oppositional role promised during the campaign that once they are elected they are going to raise the issue of the increase of pensions and salaries. “Some illiterate economists used to claim that it’s impossible in the current conditions.”
However the Dashnaks are claiming the opposite. How can this statement become reality if it smells more like populism? As the head of the Dashnaktsutyun faction, Hrayr Karapetyan yesterday mentioned in Tesaket club it is possible to increase the pensions and salaries if the shady economy is exposed to the tax field. As a proof to the mentioned statement the spokesperson has mentioned that the government has decided to raise the pensions by 60% starting from January of the next year (supposedly gives us grounds to assume that a lot of shade was brought to the tax field about 2 weeks ago). Is it not clear that it’s necessary to fight against the shade in order to raise pensions and salaries? The problem is that the Dashnaks are skipping to speak about the ways on how to fight the evil shade. The same happened yesterday. One of the journalists asked how they are going to do that when most part of the MPs are either businessmen or people, who have string links to businesses (including many of the Dashnak MPs), who don’t mind the shade in the country. As a response Karapetyan says, “I don’t exclude that the NA could have established special committee to fight against the shade if it consisted of different political powers.” As it’s known the Dashnaks are loyal fighters against corruption but surprisingly they don’t like to talk about the concrete steps or mention names. As of mentioning the names Karapetyan said that he wishes that each of us mention those names in our mind based on the following definition he made, “All the officials, who are in power and somehow deal with businesses there are corrupt to a certain extent. The ones, who are not, they will become. This is inevitable.” But he didn’t mention names but instead said, “If I start to mention names I will be stuck here for over two hours.” If relying on the definition made by Karapetyan we may presume that all the statesmen are corrupt. “If they are not corrupt they are under risk of becoming corrupt,” simplified Karapetyan. Is there a possibility that Dashnaktsutyun recalls its three ministers from the government prior to presidential elections in order to be neutral? It turns out that it’s one of the versions however Karapetyan doesn’t think that they will get to that. Do you know why? “What is the point of recalling them if after elections we will have more ministerial portfolios,” said the Dashnak MP. Concerning the talks about the possible candidacy of former president Levon Ter Petrosyan, Karapetyan considered this as normal, but doesn’t think he would offer serious competition. “The people’s memory isn’t short, and no one has forgotten those times. I don’t find him a serious opponent during the presidential elections,” he said. Dashnaks are strange people. It turns out that Levon Ter-Petrosyan, who had brought a little victory to Armenia during his presidency is not a serious opponent for a political party, during the existence of which Armenian people have been through lots of sufferings, such as genocide and starvation.