As Nikol Pashinian’s bloc My Step convincingly won early parliamentary elections, the acting Prime Minister of Armenia decided to deal with major domestic problems right up front. On December 12th, Pashinian arrived in Charentsavan with a working visit to figure the situation of 3rd school out personally. The acting Premier was accompanied by the acting Education and Science Minister Araik Arutyunyan, the governor of the Kotayk Province Romanos Petrosyan, and other officials.
Such a powerful delegation makes us think that a very difficult situation emerged in the school, which probably threatened stability of the republic and the revolutionary idea and demanded immediate Premier’s intervention. The developments in the school are pretty concerning: some parents and teachers are protesting against electing a new principal of the school Anna Balyan and demanding extension of the term of the previous principal Lusine Karapetyan’s office. It should be noted that according to the acting Education and Science Minister Arutyunyan, principals of Armenian schools should be either wives or girlfriends of officials. It may happen that the country’s leaders pay high attention to the conflict between two principals due to that fact.
As it was expected the well-timed visit by the acting Premier to the emerging hotspot helped to clarify the situation. “We talked to the sides, discussed, and concluded that the elections of the new principal were legitimate. There is no ground to hold their results invalid. As for bullying, law enforcement officials will deal with that. If they reveal facts of bullying, the elections will be found invalid. Moreover, Mrs. Karapetyan can appeal though the courts against results of the elections. Later this day, the governor will appoint the elected principal as there is no other legal option,” Nikol Pashinian said. Moreover, the acting Premier ordered pupils of the school to be back to usual studying: “Guys you have to restore usual studying tomorrow. A school is not a principal just like a country is not a Premier or a province is not a governor. I give you a telephone number of my assistant. Don’t call him during a week but start going to school with your friends. In a week, you can call him if you don’t like something. Give the new principal a chance. Let’s see whether she is good or not,” Pashinian told one of pupils.
Thus, Nikol Pashinian showed himself a firm and strong leader who can settle Armenia’s problems right now. He proved to be a people’s Premier who is ready to take part in coping with problems of common citizens. According to our sources, soon Pashinain plans to visit a teacher-parent meeting in 69th school to discuss misbehavior of pupil Armen Simonyan and bad academic progress of his classmate Ara Mamikonyan.
