ANC: Ruling Republicans readying Armenia for Sargsyan’s premiershipJuly 24, 2017 - 15:25 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Deputy chairman of the Armenian National Congress (ANC) Levon Zurabyan said that president Serzh Sargsyan is the most active representative of the ruling Republican party (RPA), while prime minister Karen Karapetyan has gone by the wayside. According to Zurabyan, the RPA is thus preparing Sargsyan for premiership. In response to a question about whether Sargsyan would like to become a PM or would rather remain the chairman of the ruling party, Zurabyan said such a scenario is easy to predict. All the steps that the ruling party has taken are interconnected, the former opposition lawmaker said, citing the constitutional reforms, which he said enabled Sargsyan’s regime to reproduce. “Afterwards, they falsified the parliamentary elections and created the staff they wanted,” Zurabyan said during an iterview on Armenia TV. The Armenian opposition has been insisting on some clarity about the position of the prime minister after Sargsyan’s term as president ends in 2018. Various RPA officials used to say that Karapetyan will continue heading the cabinet, but opinions come to vary lately. Top stories The Cabinet of Ministers decided on Thursday, November 9 to allocated AMD 120 million to arrange the gathering. Michael Roth believes sanctions must be put on the table after Baku‘s ethnic cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh. The Yerevan City Council has elected Tigran Avniyan from the ruling Civil Contract as the mayor of the Armenian capital. The Armenian Parliament on Tuesday, October 3 voted to ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Partner news | The Power of One Dram to benefit Road of Life charity The companies inform that the May beneficiary of The Power of One Dram is the “Road of Life” charitable organization. Ucom General Director gives lecture at French University in Armenia The General Director of Ucom Ralph Yirikian delivered a lecture at the French University of Armenia. Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Aliyev says no need for mediators in Armenia-Azerbaijan process Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev believes that Baku and Yerevan do not mediators in the process of normalizing relations. |