Political scientist Vladimir Martirosyan's Facebook post.
"What you are observing in the face of the phenomenon called Universal Nationalization of Income has subtexts and layers, which this government is trying to cover up again with the tool of populism and diversion.
All of you, from taking a loan in banks, have come across the conditions under which the bank tries to insure itself with guarantees of service and repayment of the given loan, starting with collateral, documents confirming income, and ending with the guarantee of a second person.
At the end of 2024, the state debt of Armenia crossed the threshold of 12 billion 560 million dollars their service and return.
2025 is the first stage of loan repayments, which implies a burden for the economy and the state budget. Consider everything in this context. Tax increases, reform, declaration.
The thesis "they have not done anything for 30 years, we are doing it" has been used so much that it is getting worn out. Now it is time to use the thesis "help us do what we have not done and feel responsible for your state". the main aim of the dramatic declines was the concealment of the real reason for the burden placed on the citizens of Armenia about realism and the optimal, targeted and effective use of debts. Dramatic inflections and expression were good helpers to overshadow that discourse.
No president or prime minister of any country in the world has ever felt or, more precisely, had enough political morality and caution that the public's rejection of any sector reform or service price increase is not directly related to emphasizing the low level of patriotism of the citizens of that state, not accepting that state as their own.
Moreover, they did not understand the unreasonableness and wastefulness of those reforms and price increases, and in order to hide the deep flaws in them from the public, they switched to such a populist campaign, the leitmotif of which is the demonstration and justification of the low mental level, low consciousness and lifestyle of the citizens of their own country, and as if they do not perceive the state as their own.
No president or official has done such a thing and will not do it, because he knows that in the next elections, the demagogue president or prime minister candidate who puts him in the place of a donkey, damages his pocket, accuses him of lack of patriotism, accuses him of having a low mentality and civilization, will be sent to political the trash can.
P.S. Again, the time has come to close the account of the debts and obligations assumed by the citizen. To take a debt, from the CP, to close it, from a proud citizen."
