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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."

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