The main figures of the Congress Davit Shahnazaryan and Felix Khachatryan are not on the ANC list. www.aravot.am tried to find out from them what the reason for that was, whether they had not been in places that would pass or whether they just didn’t want to become MPs. “Oh, it is very simple. You all saw that there are many candidates, there are many worthy people, I said let there be no fuss, let it be easy. It is kind of like when you see full minibuses you don’t get on it, you say to yourself that you don’t want to stand, ride squeezed, you had better get off. Don’t seek for anything, please,” said Felix Khachatryan, assuring that there had been no discussion in regard to his place on the list at all, “I am saying to you straightforwardly that my leaving has nothing to do with the place. It is my wish – human, natural wish – there is no dissatisfaction. You know what, there are 131 places and 1310 people struggle. What was the point in getting involved in all that fuss? If I said I didn’t want to become an MP, it would be a lie, but if I said that the purpose of my existence is to become an MP, it wouldn’t correspond to the reality either. I made a decision quite easily.”
In response to our question who he had handed his place over, who had been the man that had been worthier, in his words, he said, “I didn’t have a place to hand it over. The place is not privatized. Everyone says ‘I have handed my place over to this one or that one.’ I said I didn’t want, the rest is theirs to decide.”
According to Mr. Khachatryan, he remains being one of the main figures in the ANC and it was not necessary for him to be a candidate for MP, “It is quite an ordinary situation of struggle. I just thought I should leave this fuss, in order that the atmosphere might clear up a bit.” We inquired whether the ANC list had been thus drawn up in a bad atmosphere, as a result of controversies and heated struggle, “I don’t think so,” assured Mr. Khachatryan adding that “there were debates, principles, every party had its say… but it was decided to entrust Levon Ter-Petrossian with the task and it was done so. Afterwards, I think, nothing special has happened.” Felix Khachatryan thinks that it is too rough to say that Levon Ter-Petrossian has drawn the list by himself, “Everyone said that they entrusted Levon Ter-Petrossian with the task of drawing up the list. I had said before drawing up the list that I didn’t wish to be on the list and I don’t know the latest details. When I saw parties, NGOs, some complaints and stuff, I said to myself it was not the end of the world, I had better not be on the list and you take your time thinking.”
Davit Shahnazaryan, a member of the central office of the ANC, did not wish to comment why he was not on the list. He promised to make a comment on reasons later.
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