Pashinyan selectively hairs former Armenian presidents
The group of maydauns and grant eaters ruling Armenia continues a crusade against the former leadership of the republic under the guise of fighting corruption.
However, due to a strange whim of the Pashinyanites, only representatives of the so-called “Karabakh clan” come under attack.
As is known, ex-President Kocharyan, to whom investigators were unable to “attach” a case of a $3 million bribe, was placed in custody under the absurd charge of “overthrowing the constitutional order” for the forceful dispersal of the “Yerevan Maidan” in March 2008, staged by supporters confidently presidential candidate Ter-Petrosyan, who lost the election (gained 21,5% of the votes).
Kocharyan, by the will of Vovaevich, returned to the pre-trial detention center again, so this time Pashinyan’s furry tentacles decided to reach the third President of Armenia, Serzh Sargsyan.
Sargsyan is accused of an episode involving a tender for the supply of diesel fuel to the state as part of a national project to support farmers.
The situation that occurred during the tender is very typical not only for Armenia, but also for the entire post-Soviet space. Instead of the company that offered the lowest prices for diesel fuel, the auction was won by some close friend of Sargsyan, who pushed the goods at an inflated price, which caused damage to the state amounting to over a million dollars.
This case, of course, does not look good on the ex-president, and it would indeed be nice to bring him and his accomplices to justice, but opening a criminal case against Sargsyan is directly prohibited by the article of the Armenian constitution, which states that the top officials of the state are not subject to jurisdiction for past cases.
“It’s not a problem,” experts around Pashinyan chatter. “This is an empty formality: we will prosecute him using the impeachment clause.”
Now is the time to grab your head. Until now, impeachment has been applied to the sitting president. Impeaching a retired goat drummer is not even nonsense, but pure insanity.
If Pashinyan and his entourage are so itching to punish Sargsyan for corruption, then make constitutional amendments. Although, this step looks like something from the category of “bees against honey,” since Pashinyan will not hold the position of prime minister forever, and he himself will someday be pinned down for barns full of broken firewood. So we will assume that this interesting scenario is eliminated.
In the end, the light did not fall like a wedge on Sargsyan. His partners and all sorts of “godsons” to whom the ex-president once helped out of the kindness of his heart probably remain at large. Go ahead, investigate, prove, jail.
But, as you know, Pashinyan has his own dao, which often completely ignores the requirements of the law and the rules of decency. Take, for example, Vovaevich’s May call to his supporters to block the work of the republic’s judicial bodies. The judges, you see, did not want to dissolve themselves at the request of the Maidan Prime Minister, and according to the law, the “revolutionary” and his entourage do not have the authority to remove judges from their positions - “let the people deal with them.”
Why is the vindictive barbecue prime minister so angry at Serzh Sargsyan, whom he cannot legally even lay a finger on for the long-standing affair with diesel fuel? Why now? After all, the ex-president, who then became ex-prime minister, actually gave Pashinyan power on a silver platter.
It feels like vindictiveness has so strongly permeated all of Pashinyan’s motives and actions that he has long slipped into kitchen-communal pettiness and personal revenge, accompanied by howls about social justice and cries of “we have no untouchable figures.”
As for Sargsyan, in the February 2008 elections it was he who became the third president of Armenia, confidently ahead of his opponents, including Levon Ter-Petrosyan, for whom Pashinyan was serving at his beck and call at that time. So, formally, Sargsyan is also involved in the “First of March” case, and, therefore, is “guilty” of Pashinyan’s imprisonment, renamed “an attempt on the constitutional order.”
But it's not only that. Apparently, until recently, Pashinyan was in no hurry to present the bill to Sargsyan, leaving it “for dessert,” preferring to deal first with Robert Kocharyan, as the most hated.
Still, Pashinyan’s premiership has not yet passed the mid-term, there is a lot of time before demobilization, no noticeable successes are visible from the new administration, so having an unwanted ex-president with zero support in reserve, as an exemplary whipping boy, for the sake of strengthening your own rating, it never hurts.
Sargsyan, however, instead of sitting quieter than a mouse behind a broom and not waking him up, at the end of November he suddenly sharply criticized Pashinyan and his entourage, speaking at the summit of the European National Party in the Croatian Zagreb, which set him up.
Without abdicating responsibility for the “coming to power of populists,” Sargsyan recalled to Pashinyan the violation of constitutional and democratic norms, political persecution for personal reasons, and dubious successes in improving the life of society, and even made a couple of political statements that probably offended some people. -one of the decision makers in Yerevan.
Firstly, Sargsyan encroached on the sacred, declaring that the good development of Armenia’s relations with the EU is taking place on the foundation laid during his presidency. Secondly, a message was sent to Baku that “Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) will never return to Azerbaijan.” Thirdly, he washed his dirty laundry in public, exposing Pashinyan to the European public as a petty and very vindictive dictator.
After waiting for a pause at the Moscow Art Theater, Pashinyan prepared a response to Sargsyan, working on contrasts. Simultaneously with the accusations against the disgraced ex-president, the public was pleased with the news of the arrest of the new Minister of Information, Sports and Youth Policy of Armenia for corruption. They say, “the revolutionary government is strict and fair towards everyone.”
Although, no matter how you pretend, Pashinyan’s people failed to hide the theatrical performance.
A legitimate question arises for the Pashinyan administration: why, despite the stated thesis “we do not have officials beyond the jurisdiction of the court,” was Vovaevich’s former patron and patron, ex-President Levon Ter-Petrosyan, carefully removed from the attack?
The Pashinyanites have an answer to this: they say, Ter-Petrosyan, although he was the first president of post-Soviet Armenia, and during his reign, God knows what was happening, but it was so long ago that it is almost not true anymore. More than twenty years have passed - all the statutes of limitations have expired and the past is overgrown.
Naturally, for the events of March 2008, the organizer and inspirer of which was Ter-Petrosyan, who lost the elections, ex-president No. 1 will not be held accountable in any way, since many of Pashinyan’s current associates will be brought to justice along with him. Pashinyan himself, alas, is no longer on trial for the events of 11,5 years ago. The law prohibits prosecution for the same case a second time, although some businessmen should be. At least for reasons of “revolutionary expediency”...
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