ONE STEP FORWARD TWO STEPS BACKWARD
Support A1+!“Armenia, we all should go ahead and only ahead. Enemies are defeated, strangers are defeated, but we are together, go ahead Armenia”, declared the announcer, but the participants of the rally did not respond. One of the participants, a teacher, laughed and said to her colleague: “Silence is the sign of consent”.
“Have you heard Lenin’s story: two steps forward, one step backward. The same is with us”, said a participant from Armavir and added: “We have come to see how they congratulate the newly elected president. We have come to see him, listen to his promises, so that later we will tell him that he has given promises but have not kept them”.
You could see thousands of buses standing in front of the Yerevan Municipality and their lines reached the building of the RA Justice Ministry. Many people remained sitting in the buses and did not get off. When “A1+” asked why they did not get off, they responded that they would get off the bus; they only waited for a proper moment. The bus which had brought Gyumri residents to participate in the rally, was also full of people, they were having lunch and having fun. Some teachers from Armavir hurried to get on the bus, but when the director called them on the mobile phone and asked where they were, the teachers told they were in the territory. “All teachers are brought to the Square compulsorily. Many people have arrived from Armavir, the majority are teachers”, complained the teachers.
Not only teachers were obliged to participate in the rally, but the employees of kindergartens, hospitals and policlinics. The plenty of buses caused traffic jams on some streets. Passengers of the buses, which stood close to the Square, were compelled to walk to the Square. Employees of ministries were also made come to the Square and participate in the rally.
A group of people who had arrive in Yerevan from regions to participate in Serge Sargsyan’s rally, hurried to join Levon Ter-Petrosyan’s rally in the Liberty Square.
