Karine Achemyan: “A politician, a woman or a man should be ready to say his/ her word in every situation”

Karine Achemyan, recently elected president of the RPA Women’s Council, is in the 8th position of the party’s proportional list and is nominated by the rating list in Yerevan’s N 4 constituency (Kentron, Nork-Marash, Erebuni, Nubarashen).

The deputy candidate is convinced that the citizens who are responsible and imagine that the country is facing today’s situation, should go to the election, worrying about all this. Speaking to WomenNet.am, she also presented her assessments of this campaign, which, according to Atchemyan, is obviously different from the previous elections.

The pre-election campaign approaches its line, how would you rate it?

– It is not a standard situation in the sense that it is not standard elections because we were going to change the Electoral Code and hold the elections shortly before May-June, but it turned so. This hastiness has brought many difficulties for both parties and specifically for me as a candidate for a rating because the nomination of this election requires more serious work and time is needed. Unfortunately, this campaign did not contain any ingredient. This was not a campaign of ideological dialogue, but rather to discredit one another, especially with regard to the authorities’ targeting the RPA. But a politician, a woman or a man should be prepared to say his word in every situation, and I, as RPA, have concentrated on my resources and have done everything possible so that the party can be represented in the parliament properly.

I myself have always been for non-artificial and natural ways of involvement of women, because sometimes the quota leads to the fact that non-professional people appear in the National Assembly, people who have never been involved in political activities. On the other hand, quotas are of great importance today because it helps women enter the parliament. I’m for the fact that women are engaged in politics because women are more responsible and responsible for their work. But I also think that we should be careful about both women and men, because if the majority of the parliament is non-professional, what threatens us today is dangerous from the point of view of the country’s development …