Saturday, December 3 2016 17:09

ArmInfo.The Council of the Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) held today an enlarged session and issued a statement urging PAP ex-leader Gagik Tsarukyan to consider return to mainstream politics.  

The statement reads, "Given the numerous statements of the republic's  citizens and taking into account the need for wide consolidation of  public to resolve the topical foreign and domestic problems, which  can be done by Gagik Tsarukyan, who enjoys public confidence and  affection, on behalf of dozens of thousands of Armenian citizens, the  PAP Council calls on Tsarukyan to consider the issue of his return to  mainstream politics to settle the specified problems".  

Today thousands of PAP members gathered near Tsarukyan's house to  request him to return to mainstream politics. Two hours later  Tsarukyan told them that he will announce his decision within the  next few days.  He gave the same answer to the PAP Council members,  who also came up to Tsarukyan's house and read out the statement  adopted during the session. 

Earlier, however, Tsarukyan ruled out any possible return to  politics. Meanwhile, ArmInfo previously reported, citing the sources  close to the presidential administration, that Tsarukyan and  President Serzh Sargsyan had reached an agreement on Tsarukyan's  return to mainstream politics and joining the coalition with the  ruling Republican Party of Armenia after the parliamentary elections  in April 2017.  

Today's session of the PAP Council covered issues related to the  party's possible joining to a pre-electoral bloc and possible names  to appear on the party list. The party has announced nothing about  the decisions adopted at the session, but it has noted that the PAP  leadership will shortly meet with the voters in the provinces.