Pashinyan’s opponents are justified. and will history justify Pashinya?

And so another bubble of power burst. The leader of the “Prosperous Armenia” party was found not guilty in the election bribery case. That too on the eve of the elections.

Let us recall the statement that started another political persecution six years ago.

“One of the most important cases in the history of the Third Republic is being investigated because, after all, a systematic institution of seizing the will of the people is revealed,” Nikol Pashinyan stated in 2020, when PAP leader Gagik Tsarukyan was charged.

Yesterday, the Anti-Corruption Court published the verdict in the case of Gagik Tsarukyan, in which he was accused of paying 90 million drams in electoral bribes to his party during the 2017 parliamentary elections. Pashinyan insisted that it was Tsarukyan’s money, the latter did not accept the blame. Many times Pashinyan has used this groundless fact, which was confirmed by the court yesterday, to throw stones at the opposition and make a show in front of his electorate.

The most remarkable thing in this story is that the case was initiated by Gagik Tsarukyan in parallel with the process of demanding the resignation of the Government, that is, it was another attempt of the government to silence the opposition. They worked with already known and concrete methods. first, there was a search in Tsarukyan’s private house, then the National Security Service summoned him for questioning, then charged him with election bribery and arrested him. Tsarukyan spent about a month in prison, from September 25 to October 22, 2020, the hottest days of the 44-day war…

Many were surprised by the fact that the court acquitted Tsarukyan before the elections and, in fact, few believe that a fair trial is possible under this government. And taking into account the fact that Gagik Tsarukyan is going to the elections, unpleasant surprises from this government are unfortunately not excluded…

By the way, yesterday, another criminal case pending since 2020 was put to an end, which the lawyer described as pointless. A representative of the General Assembly of the ARF Armenia, a member of the National Assembly “Armenia” faction was also acquitted Prince Saghatelyan հայրը՝ Vachik Saghatelyan. The latter in 2016-2020. He was the head of Geghamavan community in Gegharkunik marz and was accused of official negligence.

“However, the unfoundedness of the accusation was confirmed in the court, an acquittal verdict was passed, against which the appeal filed by the prosecutor’s office was rejected, and the court of cassation, as we learned today, refused to accept the prosecutor’s appeal and the acquittal verdict entered into legal force.

And what was left as a result? On the one hand, a pointlessly wasted state resource, on the other hand, a vicious propaganda trail that harms the honor and good reputation of individuals…” stated the lawyer. Yervand Varosyan:

This is the face of the justice system of these authorities, a stark example of the fact that every person can and is ready to be criminally accused, prosecuted, detained, kept in prison for months or years, play with his name and good reputation, for years to tear up baseless cases that were condemned from the beginning and in the end acquitted. And since the active pre-election phase is about to start, there will be many more similar cases, the opposition field is actively preparing for the elections. How many years later they will be justified, it is not important for Pashinyan’s government, who gives his soul for the sake of “here and now”, the important thing is that he will speak now. to have material to accuse, to shame the oppositionists and the church from international pulpits.

Pashinyan’s opponents are justified. And will history justify Pashinyan and all the puppets of his self-serving justice system…

Lia Khojoyan

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