Anna Kostanyan “The potential of women is more than the opportunity to realize it”

WomenNet.am interviewed Anna Kostanyan, 10th in the proportional list of the “Bright-Armenia” party, about the intention to nominate in the extraordinary parliamentary elections and the role of women in politics. She was nominated by the party’s territorial electoral district N2 (Arabkir, Ajapnyak, Davtashen).

Anna Kostanyan is a linguist by profession, studied at Yerevan State University of Linguages and Social Sciences after V. Bryusov, as well as Yerevan School of Political Studies. She is a founding member of the “Bright Armenia” (Armenia) Party since 2015, and since February 2018 she is a member of the party’s governing board.

– The deputy mandate is not an end in itself for me, and I came to my mind just a few years ago, at some point when I encountered a problem that forced me to understand that in our country the citizen remains unheard, silent, powerless. And in this issue he faces almost any field. There are key and deep-rooted issues that I can speak about and offer solutions. Here you can come back saying that it can be done without a parliamentary mandate. Yes, one can come up with some initiatives, but the protection of the citizen’s interests at the legislative level gives a different status to the initiatives.

You know, our society is very sensitive and especially during the pre-election period it is important to formulate a message from which a person can only get sincere and targeted signals from the candidate. The best character of a prominent politician has not yet been outlined for me, and I am ready to act on behalf of the people, striving for that character, and bearing the burden of understanding the issues and proposing solutions to them.