‘They are so low that they accuse me of leaving the team in a difficult moment’: City Council member Izabella Abgaryan on resigning her mandate

Yerevan City Council member Izabella Abgaryan wrote on her Facebook page: ‘In a difficult moment, who did what and who is really low... They are so low that they accuse me of leaving the team in a difficult moment, out of longing for the mandate. The members of the faction can testify that I had already announced in the spring that I would resign my mandate, because I had been silent for two years to avoid feeding the media of the former ones, but the ruling power was dusting off the agenda of the revolution, painting butterflies in the National Assembly. After that announcement, no living being from the ruling party invited me for a meeting to ask what my grievances were. My statement is substantiated by my entries made in the faction council. Be a man, publish it.

You also know that I was waiting for the October session to propose the awarding of the title of Honorary Citizen of Yerevan to Medea Abrahamyan. Unfortunately, she passed away. During the farewell session after the war, they saw my condition, they knew my personal tragedy, my speech filled with tears and screams, what I told, which Nvard Vardanyan knew very well, but she replaced it with a rubber pipe in the debate, trying to present me as longing for the mandate. Be a man, publicize what I told at the last session with the faction during my speech. Just as they took advantage of the mayor's silence, so did I. The pinnacle of disgrace. I will say that I was one of the few people when the country was shaken, while the members of the ruling party had gone under the cloak, putting my pain aside, I proposed that not Nikol Pashinyan go live in that situation, but that a few of us talk to the people, not allowing blood on the streets of Yerevan. The response was, ‘There are no such people who can speak.’ Having a large audience, I felt it my duty to do that alone, becoming the target of both the supporters of ‘My Step’ and the former ones who were raging on social media and in the streets. I wasn’t afraid. The council members saw my posts, my fights, moreover, they liked them... Now they say ‘left in a difficult moment’,” she wrote.