Yesterday Samvel Balasanyan, the mayor of Gyumri and a member of the Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP), stated that he would endorse the candidacy of Arman Sahakyan, a Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) candidate nominated in no. 35 electoral district of Gyumri. It is interesting that RPA candidate Arman Sahakyan and the head of the ANC district organization will struggle for this office vacated by S. Balasanyan. And regardless of
the fact that the ANC and the PAP state about their cooperation in the struggle against the regime, lo and behold, the PAP mayor endorses not the ANC, but the RPA candidate. What does the ANC think about this? www.aravot.am got the ANC members’ answers to this question. Lyudmila Sargsyan, a member of the ANC parliamentary group, noted during a conversation with us, “Samvel Balasanyan was nominated by the RPA, rather than the PAP. And there was nothing surprising in that statement. Samvel Balasanyan’s statement doesn’t mean that the local organization will endorse the RPA candidate.”
According to Zoya Tadevosyan, a member of the ANC, “The time has come for Samvel Balasanyan to repay his debt.” Then Z. Tadevosyan explained, “Samvel Balasanyan got the RPA go-ahead and he owed them. The time has come to repay his debt.”
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In response to our question whether this decision of Samvel Balasanyan wouldn’t have a negative impact on further cooperation between the ANC and the PAP, Ms. Tadevosyan said the following, “The cooperation is on struggling against the regime with a joint candidate or struggling jointly. The PAP bears responsibility toward the people whom it has made promises that the current situation in the country will be changed. It should fulfill that promise. If it doesn’t do that, it bears responsibility toward the voters that voted for the PAP.”
Tatev HARUTYUNYAN
