Tsarukyan to be neutral on presidential race - paper

PanARMENIAN.Net - Prosperous Armenia party leader Gagik Tsarukyan was rumored to hold a political council meeting on Dec 10, Hraparak paper says. Tsarukyan is said to have announced a decision neither to join the presidential race, nor to back Serzh Sargsyan.

In conversation with the paper’s reporter, Prosperous Armenia spokesman Tigran Urikhanyan said the meeting day had not been specified.

“Ex-president Robert Kocharian is expected to meet with Moscow-based political circles Dec 2, with the discussions to affect Tsarukyan’s decision on presidency. Meanwhile, Prosperous Armenia members were still unaware of Tsarukyan’s plans following the latter’s visit to Brussels and meeting with President Sargsyan. The party itself has split into two camps, one encouraging their leader to run for the president, the other standing against it,” the paper says.