Epress.am asked a handful of Yerevan residents, among them an artist, activist and politician: “Why are or aren’t you going to the Armenian National Congress rally today?” Here are their responses:<\/p>\n
Writer Lusine Vayachyan<\/em><\/strong>: “I am a loyal person by nature, not conservative, and no matter how much I don’t agree with certain strategic moves, however far I am from blind faith and accordingly, I can’t be a devotee, no matter how much my reasoning rebels at times, no matter how much I feel myself to be cowardly, no matter how obvious HAK’s internal structural bureaucracy and demagogue are, no matter how much the complexity in specialness in being opposition annoys me, nevertheless, I am going to the rally, I’m going to go to listen to something new, also because my friends are going, also ’cause it’s work \u2014 we’ve caught it, well, we’re not going to leave it half-finshed, are we?”<\/p>\n Prosperous Armenia member Serob Gevorgyan<\/em><\/strong>: “I never say one shouldn’t go to a rally, since those for whom this is necessary go. And if a person wants to and has to go, then that’s his will, and that is what the principal of democracy is.”<\/p>\n Artist Karen Andreasyan<\/em><\/strong>: “I am going to the rally, but I don’t know why.”<\/p>\n Board member of the recently formed Free Democrats political party Artur Avtandilyan<\/em><\/strong>: “I won’t go because I don’t see the meaning of it. I won’t hear what I want; they will speak [in a way which] I don’t want.”<\/p>\n Ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) member, Yerevan State Linguistic University named after V. Brusov master’s student Eteri Ayvazyan<\/em><\/strong>: “I haven’t gone and won’t go. It’s understandable why people gather. Unfortunately, no one goes for any specific reason. That is, there is one purpose: that the president resign. As if people are hypnotized. In short, according to me, nothing serious.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Epress.am asked a handful of Yerevan residents: “Why are or aren’t you going to the Armenian National Congress rally today?”
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