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SINGER TURNED MP SHOUSHAN PETROSYAN - WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ARMENIAN WORK ETHIC?
Grisha Balasanyan
hetq
19:21, May 30, 2012
Shoushan Petrosyan used to be a singer...Now she's a legislator in
the new parliament, having been elected to Armenia's National Assembly
on the Republican Party slate.
But don't tell her that she's moved from the realm of show business
to the gritty world of politics. That will along get her blood boiling.
"I have always disliked the terms show business and stars. I
have said so during my 20 year career. I categorically reject the
crude inference made by reporters that now show biz has entered the
parliament. No. Show biz hasn't infiltrated the legislature but only
one person has. That's me, Shoushan Petrosyan."
The singer turned MP told reporters, when she visited the Central
Electoral Commission to pick up her mandate, that singing is just as
important as working in the parliament and serving the nation.
"I will work in the National Assembly because we have grown tired of
all these protests. For how long can we go on complaining that this or
that is bad? By the way, many of the naysayers aren't fully matured
citizens. They are the youth who say that there is no work. But when
you propose something their first question is how much is the salary.
Tell them the job pays 60, 000AMD and their response is 'you must be
crazy'," Petrosyan noted.
When asked if she could have been elected to parliament as an
independent, Petrosyan said that the ruling Republican Party approached
her with the offer to run on their ticket.
"Other parties could have made a similar offer. I would have mulled
it over."
Perosyan said that what was important was the adoption of a state
mode of thinking and noted that the ideology of Garegin Nzhdeh must
serve the country.
She confessed that she hadn't followed the proceedings of the previous
legislature, describing the body as uninteresting and lacking any
real debate.
"What I find exciting is that there will be some diversity in the
new parliament. There must be debate and movement. Above all else,
we must develop a civilized culture within the legislature since we
will serve as an example for the people."
She noted that if all Armenia's citizens took pride in their work,
many things would change in the country. The singer added that it
wasn't shameful to work for a small pay check but that it was a shame
not to work.
"I feel a deep sense of respect when I see those uniformed workers
cleaning the streets at night. They are more patriotic than those
others who boast and brag. Armenians have always been an industrious
people who worked the land. Now, those concepts are only found
in books."
Grisha Balasanyan
hetq
19:21, May 30, 2012
Shoushan Petrosyan used to be a singer...Now she's a legislator in
the new parliament, having been elected to Armenia's National Assembly
on the Republican Party slate.
But don't tell her that she's moved from the realm of show business
to the gritty world of politics. That will along get her blood boiling.
"I have always disliked the terms show business and stars. I
have said so during my 20 year career. I categorically reject the
crude inference made by reporters that now show biz has entered the
parliament. No. Show biz hasn't infiltrated the legislature but only
one person has. That's me, Shoushan Petrosyan."
The singer turned MP told reporters, when she visited the Central
Electoral Commission to pick up her mandate, that singing is just as
important as working in the parliament and serving the nation.
"I will work in the National Assembly because we have grown tired of
all these protests. For how long can we go on complaining that this or
that is bad? By the way, many of the naysayers aren't fully matured
citizens. They are the youth who say that there is no work. But when
you propose something their first question is how much is the salary.
Tell them the job pays 60, 000AMD and their response is 'you must be
crazy'," Petrosyan noted.
When asked if she could have been elected to parliament as an
independent, Petrosyan said that the ruling Republican Party approached
her with the offer to run on their ticket.
"Other parties could have made a similar offer. I would have mulled
it over."
Perosyan said that what was important was the adoption of a state
mode of thinking and noted that the ideology of Garegin Nzhdeh must
serve the country.
She confessed that she hadn't followed the proceedings of the previous
legislature, describing the body as uninteresting and lacking any
real debate.
"What I find exciting is that there will be some diversity in the
new parliament. There must be debate and movement. Above all else,
we must develop a civilized culture within the legislature since we
will serve as an example for the people."
She noted that if all Armenia's citizens took pride in their work,
many things would change in the country. The singer added that it
wasn't shameful to work for a small pay check but that it was a shame
not to work.
"I feel a deep sense of respect when I see those uniformed workers
cleaning the streets at night. They are more patriotic than those
others who boast and brag. Armenians have always been an industrious
people who worked the land. Now, those concepts are only found
in books."