“Let it be a wooden stick, let it be ours”: Araik Harutyunyan as Deputy Prime Minister?

According to the newspaper “Zhoghavorud,” while the situation is tense in various regions of Armenia and the opponent is provoking new provocations at the border every moment to implement its aspirations as soon as possible, the domestic authorities are thinking about how to fill the vacant positions. After Suren Papikyan took over the position of Minister of Defense, the authorities are grappling with whom to grant the deputy prime minister’s chair.

Sources close to the ruling Civil Contract party inform “Zhoghavorud” that the search for a candidate did not take long, and Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has settled on Araik Harutyunyan, the head of the Prime Minister's Office.

This key position is entrusted to the minister who has failed in the fields of education, science, culture, and sports. Education and culture are, of course, sectors of strategic importance, but running a ministry is one thing, and managing an economy and the state is quite another.

There is no need to be surprised by Pashinyan’s staff policy; this is yet another proof that the ruling “Civil Contract” has a serious issue with personnel and is guided by the well-known principle of the former Armenian National Movement: “Let it be a wooden stick, let it be ours” when distributing positions.

For more details, refer to today’s issue of the newspaper.