IF PROSPEROUS ARMENIA SIGNS A COALITION AGREEMENT WITH RPA, VARDAN OSKANYAN WILL LEAVE THE PARTY

arminfo
Friday, May 11, 15:27

If Prosperous Armenia signs a coalition agreement with the ruling
Republican Party, the ex-foreign minister of Armenia Vardan Oskanyan
will leave the party. Such statement came from Vardan Oskanyan at
the session of the Joint Inter-Party Headquarters on May 11.

Oskanyan said he is against signing any coalition agreement and will
fight against it. The politician said he is not going to cooperate
with the Republican and assume responsibility for another ‘virtual
coalition.’ At the same time, Oskanyan said the PAP has not yet
received any suggestion to make a coalition with the RPA. If there
is such suggestion, the majority of the party will adopt the final
decision and Gagik Tsarukyan and Oskayan are to reckon with it,
he said.

Nevertheless, as regards the rumors about his intention to run for
president in 2013, Oskanyan said: I neither reject nor confirm those
rumors. It is just untimely to speak of that. I am thinking so far.”

Oskanyan said that PAP’s oppositional views are not false and the
party is trying to liquidate the political monopoly of the Republican
Party. As regards the voter bribery by Prosperous Armenia, Oskanyan
said that all the parties must be punished for irregularities and
falsifications, but before punishing them, it is necessary to prove
their guilt.

In 2011 RPA, Prosperous Armenia and Orinats Yerkir signed a new
coalitional memorandum, thereby supporting the incumbent president’s
candidacy at the forthcoming presidential election in 2013. However, at
the parliamentary elections of May 6 2012 the PAP took an oppositional
stance and openly competed with the Republicans.