Socialist Party MP Eduard Shalsi has stated that the civic protest on the boulevard contains two different dimensions that, according to him, do not match each other.
On A2 CNN, he said that in addition to the real concerns of citizens and reasoned criticism of the government, the protest also included vulgar slogans, old slogans, and articulations that he described as nationalistic or vulgar.
“In this protest, we all know that there is no single picture. So there are a variety of voices from different segments of the population and there are two axes that, in my opinion, in our opinion, do not match each other. One, for example, is the fact that there are very strange speeches, there is vulgar, banal vocabulary.
There are old slogans, traitor, there are nationalist articulations, there are ordinary articulations, which in my opinion conflict with a healthy portion of the protesters.
“On the other hand, at least from the clarification of some of the speeches that we have seen, we have seen some structured, clear speeches, with real issues, with remarks that, according to us and in my opinion, are very fair,” he emphasized.
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Shalsi indicated that over the past few days he has spoken with protest participants to better understand the reasons for their dissatisfaction, emphasizing that many of the concerns raised are real and deserve attention.
“I have about a week, we have our friends, I have a cousin of mine who I said I love very much, I respect him very much and I have been spending 10 days in the mornings getting to know these people better, drinking coffee and understanding their concerns and they are real concerns,” he continued on Off the Record with Andrea Dangli on A2 CNN.
The socialist MP also confessed that, as he passed by the protest, he was confronted by citizens who invited him to join them.
According to him, he saw a civic atmosphere with families, young and old, without facing insults or offenses, which made him reflect on the messages being conveyed by the protesters.
“On the second or third day of the protest, I happened to be at the Twin Towers and because the car couldn’t pick me up, I had to walk to the shalvaret and I came across, let’s say, a considerable number of protesters.
For the sake of truth, no one insulted me. No one offended me. Someone told me that famous phrase of mine. I had some friends of mine. I also saw a cousin of mine who I love and respect very much, for the truth.
So I saw faces I would say beautiful that for a moment I said should I go back? Even the memory of a friend of mine put his arm around me and said come and join the protest. And I saw an environment of men, women, young people, children with strollers, mothers, daughters that for a moment I said let me go back and listen to what they are saying for a moment.