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ART DOESN’T BELIEVE THE ELECTIONS
[10:27 pm] 16 March, 2007

Today `Tesaket’ Club hosted poet Razmik Davoyan and renowned actor
Ervand Manaryan who dwelt on the May 12 parliamentary
elections. Ervand Manaryan has decided neither to participate in the
election campaigns nor to back up any force. `I don’t want to
participate as I know for sure that most of the NA deputies are
already decided. What can I change with my participation?’

Razmik Davoyan also assumes that the engagement of the Armenian
intelligentsia in the election campaign is useless as `there is no
such demand’

To note, Razmik Davoyan is a member of ARF Dashnaktsutyun. He will
participate in the election campaign after getting familiarized with
the proportional ticket of the party.

Ervand Manaryan is astonished at the current political atmosphere. `I
don’t understand how a party may have 300 thousand members taking into
account the fact that the party didn’t exist two years ago.’

Nevertheless, the hosts of the `Tesaket’ Club realize why the parties’
tickets involved the representatives of intelligentsia. By the way,
Ervand Mamaryan is disappointed by the RA current political state, the
general atmosphere and art. On the whole, both of them don’t inspire
great expectations from the elections.