Armenian authorities ignoring public sufferings
By Mushvig Mehdiyev
Continuous protests in Armenia reveal nations' deepening dissatisfaction with the ruling regime. One third of the whole population is deprived of their Constitutional rights in Armenia.
"About 1 million people in Armenia are deprived of their Constitutional rights and this has led them to hold numerous protests over the last year," MP from the Prosperous Armenia party Vahe Enfiajyan said on October 21.
Enfiajyan underlined the protests against the funded pension system, increase of tuition fees at the state universities, as well as the new turnover tax on small and medium business owners adding that they are the results of a weak constitution in Armenia.
"We can add to this list the unfair court decisions, stealing money from the citizens' pockets by the paid parking and highway cameras and the draconian bank interests. These are the reasons behind the upcoming protest at the Liberty square on October 24," Enfiajyan noted
"Troika" of the three main Armenian opposition parties - Heritage party, Prosperous Armenia party and Armenian National Congress held a large-scale protest rally in the capital city Yerevan on October 10. Tens of thousands of residents flocked to the Liberty Square to demand the power change in the country. During the rally, protesters chanted anti-government slogans.
Government Crisis
The "opposition trio" has recently expressed its concern over the continuing crisis in Armenia. It adopted a statement to shed light to the dark sides of the crisis at government level.
The lawmakers of the three leading opposition forces said the corruption, monopolies, high poverty rate, as well as the skyrocketing emigration and mistrust in the electoral system were deepening the crisis.
"Corruption and monopolies are the greatest evils in Armenia's
economy and governance system. Local and international
organizations have repeatedly confirmed this fact," Secretary of
the Armenian National Congress parliamentary group Aram Manukyan
said.
Armenians are overwhelmingly leaving the country amid the economic
and political crisis in the ex-Soviet state. Poverty and
unemployment along with the regular violations of human rights
leave no choice for the residents but to abandon their native
land.
"About 213, 000 people have emigrated from Armenia during the last four years. This trend has damaged Armenia's international reputation," Manukyan noted.
The government fails to meet the society's needs in terms of implementing economic, political, social, financial and other projects to ease public life in the country. Constant failure of taking the right measures deteriorated the situation in the South Caucasus state and all in Armenia started to describe it as a governing crisis. Neither the Constitution's, nor the National Assembly's Rules of Procedure's demands are correctly observed to get rid of the multi-sided crisis.
Now, about 30 percent poor, 20 percent unemployed and 7 percent beggar Armenians are going to demand their rights at the upcoming rally in October 24. Disagreement between the regime and residents is reaching to its cutting edge in Armenia. The people will either make or break the justice in the country as the ongoing events promise nothing but a dark future.