From 1 to 10 April, 2020, the “Media Advocate” initiative followed online media reports on the mayor of Yerevan, Hayk Marutyan’s personality and activities. 35 leading Armenian news agencies have been monitored. In the specified period, 239 articles were declared, 140 of which were negative, 1 was positive and 98 were neutral.
More than 50 percent of the articles published on Yerevan Mayor Hayk Marutyan are negative.
Davit Khazhakyan, a member of Yerevan Council of Elders from the Luys fraction, referring to the change in the traffic rules at the intersection near the Hayrenik cinema, noted: “The intersection of “Hayrenik “will be even more dangerous with this solution, because after the change there will be no traffic lights.”
According to Narek Samsonyan, Head of the “Civic Consciousness” NGO, the mayor of every big city in the world communicates with the citizens. “Hayk Marutyan does not feel the responsibility of the mayor. I only saw him live with garbage trucks. If we assess Hayk Marutyan’s work, we will assess it with two points.” According to Narek Samsonyan, Hayk Marutyan will remain the worst and scariest political figure in the history of Yerevan.
“If you’re not doing anything, go, sit at home, stay quarantine-ish.” The mayor of Yerevan Hayk Marutyan’s live with this very message, made ARF (Armenian Revolutionary Federation) city council to send a message to Hayk Marutyan.
In an interview with Yerkir.am, Sargis Karapetyan, a member of the ARF Yerevan City Committee, noted that Hayk Marutyan’s lexicon did not suit the mayor of Yerevan and, in general, did not suit anyone. “So, let’s start with his live, where he tried to introduce himself to the people and noted that he works from morning to night and is not going to show it off via Facebook lives. We would like to remind the mayor that now the whole world is governed by means of lives, even the G20 summit was held online, now people need more information and he, as the elected mayor of a city of one million, who received 80 percent of the vote, must use lives every day and to inform the public about the steps he has taken.”
