Return the Bonuses or Resign: Hraparak

Hraparak's analytical section has posted a material stating:

Starting tomorrow, all officials who have rewarded themselves and their staffs to their heart's content should begin to return those funds. No explanations will be accepted. The people, who are the owners of this revolution and implementers of change, demand that they resign and be removed from their positions.

At yesterday's government meeting, a decision was made to continue the compensation program for citizens of the Republic of Armenia regarding deposits kept in savings banks until 1993. The deposits of citizens born before December 1, 1934, are subject to compensation.

This program, which is merely a façade, returns insignificant amounts of money to people as compensation for their savings accumulated over the years through work. These sums are mere pennies compared to the unearned income that high-ranking officials are currently appropriating in the form of bonuses, incentives, and allowances. This disgrace must be stopped, and the money must be returned, because no one can sit in a luxurious state office and receive in 6 months a bonus larger than what citizens have earned throughout their lives in Soviet factories, plants, and construction sites.

If Nikol Pashinyan does not compel his team to return this money, he will also become complicit in this blatant robbery and the feast of the gluttons. This is no longer an ordinary accusation of eating khash, Mr. Pashinyan, nor is this speech an attempt to equate you with the former officials. You have no choice but to stand with the people and to sue your own associates. You continue speaking about returning the money obtained by the former officials, yet today you are shutting down ministries to siphon off money from somewhere, while your own people are stealing from the state like a fox stealing wheat… Please, Mr. Prime Minister, do the math. I assure you, if such large-scale theft were allowed in a country as impoverished as ours, no prime minister would remain in office, and they would resign.

Either admit that this team has been imposed on you, and that you wish to be rid of everyone starting tomorrow. The fact is that the people chose you, not this team. Therefore, you are also in the crosshairs, not this 'team.'

Will you listen to my advice? Good, if not, it's your business; let them digest what they have taken. It will turn out that you rewarded them for walking during the velvet revolution.