Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has publicized the promised fact about president Hrayr Tovmasyan of the Constitutional Court (CC) of Armenia.
“This is Hrayr Tovmasyan’s pen. I’d been thinking about whether or not throwing it to the garbage bin for a long time,” he wrote, in particular, on Facebook. “In the end, I decided to keep, as a testimony of the most bizarre buttering-up, flattery I’ve ever seen.
After being elected Prime Minister, I met with Hrayr Tovmasyan for the first time at the meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Hayastan All Armenian Fund convened in May2018. He was sitting next to me.
It seemed strange to me, Mr. Tovmasyan’s obviously flattering attitude towards me—a man as a result of whose actions his longtime political team had been crushed just days earlier.
Then I had to make a note, I couldn’t find my pen, (…) he suggested this ‘elite’ pen of his.
I made my notes, gave a talk, and my attempts to return the pen to him became a story.
In short, this pen remained with me as a ‘pledge of faithfulness.’
Anyway, then the petitions for a reception by me started. I didn’t accept.
Then July 5 [Constitution Day anniversary] was drawing near. ‘Message-requests’ began for me to participate in the reception to be held at the CC that day.
I refused, moreover, several times because I understood that the person occupying the CC wanted achieve legitimacy in this way.
Then we met in the Christmas [church] liturgy in 2019. He began buttering up to [my wife] Anna [Hakobyan] that, ‘I thank you for giving my daughter scholarship.’
Then, the person whom he referenced recently came to me several times to report that ‘Hrayr says, ‘I wrote this Constitution. Why doesn’t the Prime Minister use my capabilities?’
In response, I suggested to him to go somewhere far, far away.”
This is Hrayr Tovmasyan’s pen. For a long time I thought about whether to throw it in the garbage or not.
In the end, I decided to keep it as a testament to the strangest cuddling I’ve ever seen.
After being elected Prime Minister, I met Hrayr Tovmasyan for the first time in 2018. at the meeting of the Board of Trustees of Hayastan All-Armenian Fund held in May. He was sitting next to me.
I found Mr. Tovmasyan’s apparently flattering behavior towards me, a man whose long-time political team had been crushed by his actions just days before, to be strange to me.
He used to address me exclusively as “Dear Mr. Pashinyan”, “Dear Prime Minister”. Those “gentlemen” are still scratching my ears. By the way, during the entire history of our contact, he did not address me in any other way. exclusively with “jan”.
Then he suddenly remembered and considered it important to emphasize that he is Ijevan’s son-in-law.
Then I had to make a note, I couldn’t find my pen, I don’t remember, I wanted him to notice that I was looking for a pen and offered him this “elite” pen.
I made my notes, gave a speech and my attempts to return the pen to him became history. It is your pen, please take it, what will happen, etc. It was already becoming an awkward story in front of the cameras.
In short, this pen has remained with me as a “faithful stalwart”. Now I think, when I picked up the pen back then, my subconscious was working to have an “objective fact” today.
Anyway, then applications for admission started coming to me. I did not accept.
Then July 5th approached. “message-requests” started for me to participate in the reception to be held at the CC that day.
I refused, several times, because I understood that the person occupying the CC wants to gain legitimacy that way.
Then we met in 2019. at the Christmas Mass. He started teasing Anna, thank you for giving my daughter a scholarship. When I saw that the level of flattery was going too far, I said that they didn’t know who it was. Although, it turned out, they really did not know (I should also say that knowing or not knowing would not matter for the decision: it is a matter of clear criteria).
Then several times the person to whom he had referred recently came to report to me that Hrayr says that I wrote this Constitution, why the prime minister does not use my opportunities.
In response, I offered him to go somewhere far away.