ArmInfo.The bloc consolidated around ex-defense minister of Armenia Seyran Ohanyan is being enlarged - Paruyr Hayrikyan's National Self-Determination Union Party has joined the bloc.
Earlier Tigran Karapetyan's People's Party and the movement headed by ex-chief of the Special Detachment of the National Security Ministry Artur Alexanyan joined the bloc represented by Viktor Dallakyan's Third Republic Party, ex-foreign minister Vartan Oskanian's Solidarity Party and Aram Sargsyan's Democratic Party of Armenia. Ex-defense minister of Artsakh Samvel Babayan has also joined the bloc.
As regards the Gagik Tsarukyan bloc, the People's Party of Armenia headed by Stepan Demirchyan, who has recently spoken of "eternal friendship" with the first president of Armenia Levon Ter-Petrosyan's Armenian National Congress Party, has joined the specified bloc. However, according to media reports, having failed to find himself on the ANC party ticket, Demirchyan has joined the Gagik Tsarukyan bloc and now he is the fifth on the list. Leader of the Prosperous Armenia Party Naira Zohrabyan is the fourth, preceded by Head of the Control Chamber Ishkhan Zakaryan. Businessman Khachatur Sukiasyan is the second, while Gagik Tsarukyan himself tops the list.