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Who to benefit constitutional amendments in Armenia

24 November 2015 [13:45] - TODAY.AZ

/By AzerNews/

By Laman Sadigova

Armenian citizens have intensified their struggle against the constitutional amendments that the government try to forcibly shove. People hold protests and rallies but the authorities stay blind and deaf, answering with only arrests and ignorance.

The public organization “No” has clearly demonstrated the reluctance of people to accept the changes.

"The authorities have failed in state governance, only using their power to enrich themselves, pushing people to the abyss of poverty and emigration," said Levon Zurabyan, the Head of the Armenian National Congress.

Judging by his estimates, in such circumstances the authorities’ decision to change constitution has become a real mockery for people.

The officials try to convince people by any manner, including brutality, arrests and falsification.

On the one hand, the authorities say that the draft constitution will be directed against oligarchs. But if it is true, then why local oligarchs help the government to carry out the reforms at any cost? Obviously, they understand that the amendments are one more chance for them to “save” their monopolies patronized by the corrupted government.

Zarubyan also said that the authorities lie that the changes will open new opportunities for the opposition.

Everyone understands that the Armenian government will resort to various kinds of fraud to secure the 700,000 votes needed to reach the so-called legal threshold.

Earlier, Zurabyan said that to “beat” the authorities and deprive them of the possibility of fraud, it is necessary to take an "active mandatory participation in the elections and organize public scrutiny at polling stations with the help of neutral observers who may be selected from party factions.”

The Armenian National Assembly approved the constitutional reforms without any apparent reason and social requirements. The authorities spent large amounts of money on preparing the referendum, while the country is sinking in debt.

One-third of the Armenian population lives below the poverty line and does not have the ability to pay increased taxes. Unemployment, monopoly, corruption, and migration are joined by problems such as the increasing prices of basic utilities from year to year, in particular, gas and electricity tariffs, which makes the already difficult situation hopeless.

Over the first nine months of 2015, transfers into the country decreased 32.2 percent, in the annual calculation, to nearly $426 million. Further, the total income of the public through transfers declined by one-third, and this terrifying financial decline throughout the country promises new economic disasters for this nation with a population of 2.7 million people.

The only way to improve the situation seems to be the change not of the constitutional but of the current government that led the country into this deplorable situation.

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