According to some high-ranking officials of Gyumri, former Mayor Vardan Ghukasyan is going to open an office for the president of the country in central Vardanants Square of the town. The Slavyansky Dvor restaurant that belongs to Vardan Ghukasyan’s close friend, Hovhannes, whose candy factory burned a few months ago, will be used as Serzh Sargsyan’s campaign office.
The interesting thing is that Vardan Ghukasyan will open the office at his own expense, not expecting even a pen from Hovik Abrahamyan.
According to our sources, the former mayor stated that he would not submit to Sahak Minasyan, the manager of the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) Shirak offices, whom, by the way, he has given a nickname; he addresses him by a last name “Mikoyan,” even in journalists’ presence. Instead, Ghukasyan’s office will compete with the RPA campaign headquarters, in order to show Serzh Sargsyan who is omnipotent in Gyumri.
The former mayor of Grumri obstinately wants to either return to his office or be appointed the governor of Shirak to cut newly-elected Mayor of Gyumri Samvel Balasanyan down to size. We inquired of the RPA offices how realistic this intention of Vardan Ghukasyan was. Gyumri 1, Gyumri 2 and Gyumri 3, the RPA offices, didn’t deny that the former mayor of Gyumri had this intention, but informed that the offices had already been established; end of story. Therefore, Ghuksyan’s plans are late, since the opening of all campaign offices in Gyumri is checked with the Yerevan headquarters.
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By the way, we checked where the RPA offices were, address by address, and we didn’t come across Vardan Ghukasyan’s office.
