On November 12, Aravot.am was curious to learn from the ANC faction leader Levon Zurabyan that many members of the Republican Party at this time when the National Assembly is holding sessions have gone to regions for campaigning, so whether you see a violation here. He replied, “I have another problem in the reality show rather than the fact that they have gone at the working hours. Reality show is an amusement show, it is a program known around the world. When people like cockroaches in a glass jars are placed in common observation conditions and these people all day long, 24 hours, are busy with what people usually do in their lives. This is a reality show, a matter of taste, which can be loved or not. When it is a business television program, I treat it like normal, but when it begins to be mixed with democratic political debate formats, this can be called making the politics a circus.”
We clarified that this is the reason why he did not you participate in them, Levon Zurabyan replied, “Not only for the fact that it is a circus and they have turned the politics into a circus, but there is also another circumstance. Like Ashotyan’s program, where the deputy chairman of the ruling party, one of the outstanding leaders, acts in the role of an “unbiased” reporter at the public television, and gathers a special audience, who applauds to all his words, the same thing will be used in this reality show. In other words, they go to different villages, gather their agents, their obedient people who will come to applaud for “Yes”, this is already not a reality show, nor a virtual, this is a show of lie, untruth world, and a false world. In such circumstances, when this is a circus and trained people are brought to say yes, we will not participate in such shows. There are adopted rules of democratic debate. Why do they want to invent a bicycle? They want to invent because there is no democracy in Armenia, they want to substitute the normal debate format by some concocted schemes.”
He urged to watch the political debates of the United States and France and learn how debates are organized. “Look at how the Poles, Turks, Greeks are doing it. Since they are afraid of using these formulas, they activate the imagination and concoct the most stupid forms only to be applauded and to feel safe.” To our observation that the Republicans, for example, Vahram Baghdasaryan has said that this will absorb the youth, would be attractive for them and they will take part in this process of changing, Levon Zurabyan said, “You know, now, someone may also be attracted by the striptease, it does not mean that the striptease can be mixed up with political debate. Now, they could have even offered something like that, should we go after the argument of attracting it?”
Hripsime JEBEJYAN
