Expert: By arresting criminals in offices, the state belatedly pays  its debts to society

ArmInfo.Having finally begun to arrest criminals in their offices, the state belatedly pays its debts to us, to society. Expert at the Armenian Institute of International  and Security Affairs (AIISA) Ruben Mehrabyan expressed a similar  opinion to ArmInfo.

"It is in this context that I see the arrests of mayors and heads of  rural communities of Syunik region. This process is rather late, it  must be recognized right away, but it is underway, it has just begun  and very soon it will reach more and more new offices. "The offices,  where criminal garbage has been accumulated for years, which led to a  hybrid war against the state," he said.

In this light, Mehrabyan assesses the arrests and criminal cases  brought against the heads of the communities of Syunik region as  delayed administration of justice, the establishment of justice in  the country, as measures to isolate criminals from society. According  to the expert, the anti-state actions of all these people are  primarily due to the desire to evade responsibility for previous  crimes. However, now they will have to answer for all actions under  each article of the Criminal Code.

According to Mehrabyan's definition, as of today, the main place  where criminals and their patrons are still trying to evade  responsibility, is the Constitutional Court. To this end, the latter  are now spreading lies and manipulation, trying to disguise their own  crimes with politics, presenting what is happening as political  persecution.

"Why did it happen that only representatives of the "Hayastan" and "I  Have Honor" blocs are involved in criminal cases on distributing  pre-election bribes? I think that because all these people were  initially well aware of their own essence. They understood that they  would not be able to convince the electorate to vote for themselves  within the framework of the methods provided for by law. It is clear  that in such conditions, they had no choice but to once again resort  to the methods so beloved over the past decades, native to them.   Methods, that were so opposed to society that it made a revolution in  the country, "the expert noted.

In such conditions, criminals in offices and criminals with  parliamentary mandates, according to Mehrabyan, have no choice but to  try, if possible, to delay the resumption of the natural functioning  of state institutions of power - parliament and government after the  elections. That is what they do by applying to the Constitutional  Court with a demand to challenge the results of the elections.

"And, of course, by hindering the final formation of the executive  and legislative powers, by delaying this process, they hope to  somehow destabilize the situation and, with the help of their former  clients, judges of the Constitutional Court, to achieve success.  After its decision, no one will be interested in whether they admit  the fact of their defeat or not. And of course, they try to present  the elections as illegitimate, already with an expectation of the  future. It is clear that they will achieve nothing and cannot achieve  anything.  Moreover, all this is already turning against them, and  very soon the situation will turn in such a way that they will regret  many times that they have made all this mess, "the expert summed up.