Enlisting artists in political party proportional electoral lists is a means of securing the electoral mass because the people are already tired of hearing the same names. This is what actor Yervand Manaryan and poet Razmik Davoyan said during a press conference held on Friday. According to Yervand Manaryan, the official position does not adhere to the artist because he stops being an artist when he begins subjecting to this or that political force. But being a deputy does not mean having a position, rather it means representing the people and according to him, the artist’s belonging to this or that party or securing a spot in parliament may never create problems for the artist. According to Razmik Davoyan, the artist’s partisanship must first depend on the ideology of the given political party.
“I don’t accept the Dashnaktsutiun as that much of a political party as I do as an ideology,” stated Davoyan.
Will he lead the ideological struggle for the ARF? Poet Razmik Davoyan said that it depends on the proportional electoral list of the Dashnaktsutiun which, for some reason, Davoyan still has not gotten acquainted with.