We should recall that Samvel Balasanyan, Mayor of Gyumri city, vice-president of PAP, will support Republican candidate for MP, Arman Sahakyan.
Sahakyan is nominated in the 35 constituency and Mayor Balasanyan will announce about his above mentioned information either today or tomorrow.
Note, in the 35 constituency there are only two candidates, Republican Arman Sahakyan and Murad Grigoryan form ANC political party.
It was very important to know who would support PAP member Samvel Balasanyan, who got the position of Mayor while PAP-Republican cooperation and now when PAP wants to cooperate with ANC, Balasanyan decided to support Republican candidate, but the one from ANC.
So while PAP members, Vartan Oskanian, Naira Zohrabyan and others meet and discuss the idea of changing governmental system, vice president of PAP, Samvel Balasanyan made that decision.
In order to find out what is going on, our journalists tries to take an interview from Oskanian, but the latter refused to answer our questions.
Our journalist asked Tigran Urikhanyan, PAP’s spokesman, to comment on the situation.
According to Urikhanyan, Balasanyan is not supporting Republican party itself, but a single candidate:
“I should stress that in this way you are not supporting a political party but a single candidate. As there wasn’t any candidate from PAP, Balasanyan decided to support Sahakyan.”
To the question whether it is possible that such single persons, like Balasanyan and others, will support Sargsyan?
Urikhanyan responded:
“There can’t be any such thing during the upcoming presidential elections. The one connected with Sahakyan is a local election and they can decide what to do, but of course our leader Tsarukyan knows about the decision. I can assure you that in the presidential elections, whatever decides PAP, all the members will follow the decision of the party”,
