“It is not surprising at all,” Tigran Urikhanyan, the PAP press secretary said this during a conversation with www.aravot.am in response to the publication on the iditord website that the Prosperous Armenia Party had presented residents of Avan with a bus, but they had refused to take it. Mr. Urikhanyan explained that students had applied to them with that problem and not only those of that administrative district, but also those of other districts, not only of Yerevan, but also of the regions to give them buses for free. He added that that particular bus had been given by the Kentron TV Company. The PAP press secretary thinks that other political forces, seizing the opportunity, made a show of it. “It was deliberately made, as if there was discontent, the participants were instructed; there was no real discontent visible at least to me. No one complaining student could be noticed.” As for which political force was the author of the show, in his opinion, our interlocutor didn’t wish to go
into that. Nonetheless, according to our interlocutor, they are now trying to find options how to meet the request of really needy people, at the same time avoiding provocations. In response to a question why such incidents coincided with the periods of election campaigns, Urikhanyan said: “Well, because they have no other place to hit, strike, target; that is the reason why they start to seize petty opportunities, which eventually backfire. It is black PR.” By the way, Urikhanyan also reminds that the Gagik Tsarukyan Foundation hasn’t just started to carry out multifold programs.
Nelly GRIGORYAN
