In the days following the elections, I spent most of my time at the construction site of the statue of Christ. This was an opportunity to somehow break away from the existing reality and look at the problems more broadly.

I did not want to talk about the unprecedented attacks against me and my team and the unimaginable injustice that is happening to us. All that is done very well by my teammates and our brilliant lawyers. I thank the public, political and public circles for their sincere support and pursuit of the truth.

Instead, I want to talk about a question that everyone asks each other. Why does the situation in Armenia not calm down even after the elections, and when will there be changes for the better in Armenia?

I want to answer these important questions with a question. Why was it not possible in Armenia to achieve that the election campaigns were programmatic, without hostility, without threats and hatred? Wasn’t 8 years enough to create such an atmosphere in the country? Has such a problem been raised?

I strongly believe that real good changes in Armenia are possible when we finally understand that we are all in the same boat. Position, mandate, individual narrow interest are meaningless if our common ship crashes.

They said about me that I entered the electoral process to save my property. In fact, it is completely the opposite. I have given up a quiet, carefree life for myself, with only one goal in mind: to help my country. I could, like many others, pull aside and think only about my possessions. But I am not that person. when I see that my country is facing serious problems, I can’t say that I don’t care, it doesn’t concern me.
The source of our greatest problems is indifference, which comes from not knowing and feeling deeply the idea of ​​a common home, common problems.

This thinking implies mutual respect, the ability to listen to each other, the ability to share the joy and pain of the other, and the perception of one and only homeland. Unfortunately, we don’t have that now.

If Armenia faces serious difficulties and serious challenges (and we are going in that direction now), then everyone will suffer. There will be no winners, losses will be for all of us.

I have built my public activity of the last period with an emphasis on the idea of ​​internal solidarity. This is the cornerstone on which our post-war recovery must be built. Unfortunately, instead of internal solidarity, as a result of these elections, evil, tension and division of the people deepened.

Our country has very serious problems, in the near future we will have to make difficult decisions and find unique correct solutions. But I am not sure that we realize this. Our people are divided into camps, our capable personnel, specialists, figures with experience and knowledge do not have any chance to influence the decisions. Simply put, they are ignored because they are not “their own”. We look at the diaspora as a stranger, and the internal opponents as an enemy. Where are we going with this atmosphere?

I am simply amazed by our ideas about the economy. We have reached the point where we are even dividing the economy between pro-Russian and pro-Western. This is not normal. Do you know what is happening in the Russian market now? The place of Armenian products is quickly taken by Azerbaijani products.
And while we are engaged in self-deception, the real economy may collapse. Our real peasant may be on the brink of poverty, our real businessman may go bankrupt, our real budget may have serious problems, real branches of the economy may simply disappear.
How could such a thing be allowed?

I ask and unfortunately I know the answer. We were able to allow all this precisely because we do not have the feeling of a united country, united problems. The statue I built and Noah’s Ark, apart from the economic benefits to our country, also have a much more important symbolic meaning of unity, common goals and a common future.

PAP Chairman Gagik Tsarukyan

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