Anna Hakobyan, with whom Prime Minister Pashinyan announced the reunification yesterday, says that as the head of the My Step Foundation, he does not call anyone to choose this or that force. According to Anna Hakobyan, she calls to be guided exclusively by her own convictions, as a citizen of the Republic of Armenia.
Let’s leave the potential footnotes aside. When his wife who lives with the Prime Minister (I don’t know what the legal wording is) runs a foundation that actually implements various charitable programs, only if the beneficiaries of those programs are ignorant will they need a special tip on who to vote for.
Accordingly, it is obvious that there is a conflict of interest. In this case, the operation of the My Step Foundation is essentially nothing more than a mechanism of de facto electoral bribery of the ruling power.
Hakob Badalyan
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