SERGE SARGSYAN MAY NOT BE NOMINATED
James Hakobyan

Lragir.am
06-11-2007 12:08:24

Serge Sargsyan has started behaving like a real "father of people".

When he is asked questions about the home political situation,
the activity of the first president, accusations against him and
his relatives, he says that he is rather interested in the price of
vegetable oil and butter. In other words, Serge Sargsyan is thinking
about people. Certainly, people may say "what if he thinks", the
price of vegetable oil and butter remains high anyway. However,
people are maximalist and do not realize that if Serge Sargsyan did
not think about people, they would buy vegetable oil and butter in
grams. Therefore, we should be grateful to Serge Sargsyan that we do
not have to borrow money from the bank to buy oil and butter, because
he cares about the price of these products. If we are more patient,
after New Year they may even bring the prices down to show what happens
when Serge Sargsyan cares about people. Simply people should also think
what will happen to the prices after Serge Sargsyan becomes president
and for the upcoming four years, until the eve of the parliamentary
election, he stops caring about the prices of vegetable oil and butter.

Meanwhile, we are now in for asking political questions to the prime
minister. We should not be surprised when Serge Sargsyan simply
refuses to become a presidential candidate because the election
campaign contains political elements, which distract from proactive
efforts against the growth of prices. One day when Serge Sargsyan will
be visiting a remote region, the owners of small shops may suddenly
put up sabotage and cause a shortage of flour. What will happen to
people then? Ashot Shahnazaryan with his commission for the protection
of economic competition will kneel at the door of those small shops
like the camel of trouble and will punish them for shattering the
statehood, but in this case it will be necessary to attend to Ashot
Shahnazaryan because he may be too furious and he may exterminate small
shops. Meanwhile, a supermarket is not enough to become president.

Perhaps therefore Serge Sargsyan is thinking about the growth of prices
personally and he does not let the government agencies – the commission
for the protection of economic competition, the Central Bank, the
ministry of finance and economy – think about it. In a stable and
sustainable country with harmonious development a prime minister need
not think about prices. If the agencies which are meant to think about
it perform their function conscientiously, the prime minister may do
political activities if he wants to run in the presidential election.

Consequently, either there is a state of emergency in Armenia when
the head of the government personally deals with it, or the agencies
which are supposed to deal with it and prevent emergencies fail,
or yet the prime minister does not trust the government and expects
just anything from them.

In fact, Armenia is experiencing an emergency because the country
which took the two-digit rate of growth for granted cannot sustain
it any more through the surface of land and is now preparing to empty
the mountains. Meanwhile, they are always saying Azerbaijan has oil,
we have a flexible economy.

Certainly it is flexible, like our language, but it is also barbaric,
like our language, if we believe Charents, the poet. So barbaric
that it is ready to destroy two thousand hectares of forest for two
thousand jobs.

The agencies which are supposed to prevent the prices from rising
are not working either. For instance, the Central Bank states it is
not entitled to keeping the exchange rate stable but to preventing
the prices from rising.

However, it turns out that the rate of exchange is dropping while the
prices are going up. In other words, it is not known to the society
what the Central Bank is busy with in reality.

Finally, if one of us were Serge Sargsyan, would they trust the
system of public administration which gave two pleasant surprises
within a week to the prime minister while he was getting in touch with
the system of public administration of the United States? First the
sugar fever, than violence against the participants of the peaceful
march. How can one trust the system any more? You have to think about
everything personally, and no time is left for politics. Or maybe it
is Serge Sargsyan’s policy to show that only the problems are solved
in the country to which the prime minister attends.

A real father of people. However, people have had other "fathers"
and must still remember what happens when one person makes all the
decisions in the country, be it the people’s "father", "brother", or
"uncle".