ARFD TO HELP SERGE SARGSIAN TO BECOME PRESIDENT RECEIVING DEFENCE MINISTER’S
POST IN RETURN, HAYKAKAN ZHAMANAK WRITES REFERRING TO COMPETENT SOURCES

YEREVAN, JANUARY 10, NOYAN TAPAN. The Haykakan Zhamanak daily
referring to competent sources reports that Tigran Mukuchian, Chairman
of RA Appeal Court on Civil Cases, is going to resign for being
included in the proportional list of the Bargavach Hayastan
(Prosperous Armenia) Party and holding the post of Minister of Justice
after the parliamentary elections.

According to the newspaper, there are also rumors that Deputy Defence
Minister Artur Aghabekian will also resign soon for being included in
ARFD’s proportional list: "they say they promised the post of defence
minister to him, if after the elections Serge Sargsian becomes prime
minister," the newspaper writes and adds: "S.Sargsian provides a
serious resource for ARFD: in return the ARFD will help him to become
President receiving the post of the defence minister before this." And
as a "good background for striking this deal the newspaper mentions
the engagement of ARFD Bureau member Vahan Hovhannisian’s daughter and
Serge Sargsian’s borther’s, Sashik Sargsian’s son, that took place in
early December.