VARDAN GHUKASYAN’S AND BURNASH’S PAST
Naira Hayrumyan
Story from Lragir.am News:
Published: 14:17:28 – 26/07/2012
In his response to the Republican Member of Parliament Ashot Aghababyan
– Burnash, Mayor of Gyumri Vardan Ghukasyan actually reported a
crime. He stated that being the Mayor he twice “made” Aghababyan an MP.
There will hardly be an article in the Crime Code of Armenia which
could punish the Mayor who “made someone an MP”. Perhaps because it
is an accepted practice – head of the municipal authorities often
decide the outcome of national elections.
This crime report didn’t discredit Aghababyan but Ghukasyan himself
and the electoral system. Actually, he acknowledged that he has broken
the right of the citizens to free election forcing them to vote for
a person whom he describes as “without kith or kin”. He discredited
the proud Gyumri residents who tolerated such a Mayor plus voted for
such an unworthy person.
The law enforcers of Armenia should react to Vardan Ghukasyan’s
statement otherwise they will confirm the illegality of Ashot
Aghababyan’s election, as well as Vardan Ghukasyan’s right to “make
someone a deputy”.
There is one more nuance in this story. Vardan Ghukasyan calls
Aghababyan a person “without kith or kin”. “Who were you?” –
this expression is of common use within the ruling circles and
intellectual-elite marginalized castes.
Decisions in Armenia are made by people of suspicious and not-elite
past, who got rich either on account of the war or the post-soviet
privatization, or criminal deals. It is rare to find within the
so-called elite people those, who have a solid educational resource,
in the end, hereditary aristocracy. This aristocracy, as a rule,
feels at home in the country and works for its well-being, and does
not pursue the goals of plundering as soon as possible, because
tomorrow they can be thrown out of the “elite”. No one can take away
the real aristocracy.
It is very important to have aristocracy, elite traditions at least
to have something to compare the emerging nouveau riche with. Whom
Vardan Ghukasyan compares Aghababyan with calling the latter without
kith or kin? With himself? Is there any origin of hereditary and
aristocratic pride in him? Or prestige is not determined by aristocracy
and intelligence, but by the position in the criminal world? And if he
made Aghababyan a deputy, so he is above it the scale of the thieves.
A nation should not allow being governed by “semi-literate people”,
said recently the Russian businessman Levon Hayrapetyan of Artsakh
origin. We can add that the nation should be ashamed of semi-literate
rulers, who are unable to connect two words, who listen to low-standard
music, have nicknames and are guided thieves laws.
Someday the nation will feel ashamed, and let this moment come as
quickly as possible.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
