<div dir="ltr">PanArmenian, Armenia<div>July 24
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Republicans readying Armenia for Sargsyan’s premiership </h1><div
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st1yle="color:rgb(68,68,68)">PanARMENIAN.Net</strong> - Deputy chairman
of the <strong>Armenian National Congress</strong> (ANC) <strong>Levon
Zurabyan</strong> said that president Serzh Sargsyan is the most
active representative of the ruling Republican party (RPA), while
prime minister Karen Karapetyan has gone by the wayside.</p><p>
According to Zurabyan, the RPA is thus preparing Sargsyan for
premiership.</p><p> In response to a question about whether Sargsyan
would like to become a PM or would rather remain the chairman of the
ruling party, Zurabyan said such a scenario is easy to predict.</p><p>
All the steps that the ruling party has taken are interconnected, the
former opposition lawmaker said, citing the constitutional reforms,
which he said enabled Sargsyan’s regime to
reproduce.</p><p>“Afterwards, they falsified the parliamentary
elections and created the staff they wanted,” Zurabyan said during an
iterview on Armenia TV.</p><p><em>The Armenian opposition has been
insisting on some clarity about the position of the prime minister
after Sargsyan’s term as president ends in 2018. Various RPA officials
used to say that Karapetyan will continue heading the cabinet, but
opinions come to vary lately.</em></p><p><em><a
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