Tuesday, January 24 2017 14:02

ArmInfo.Hovik Abrahamyan  will not share any responsibility for any further actions of Republican  Party of Armenia proceeding just and only from altruistic motivation. This is the exact reason why he left the party, Sergey Minasyan, the  Deputy Director of Caucasus Institute expresses his opinion. 

Hovik Abrahamyan, the Ex Prime Minister of Amrneia and RPA Board  member, has already confirmed the information about leaving RPA due  to his intension to be involved in politics more actively. Abrahamyan  promised to share the details of his decision in the nearest future. 

" I don't think his recent meeting with Russian prime Minister Dmitri  Medvedev is connected somehow with this decision.  In my opinion,  Abrahamyan's leaving is preconditioned by RPA ongoing rebranding.   And his figure, which is pretty odious , and which first reminds   April 2016 events, is just a continuation of this  logical chain,"  the political expert mentioned./ 

According to Minasyan, Abrahamyan  clearly understands all this. That  is why he does not want to stay in the Party and to carry  responsibility, getting nothing for that. 

The Republican Party of Armenia does not comment  Abrahamyan's exit  in any way. All the attempts of ArmInfo to catch any RPA Board member  on the phone to get any information on the issue mentioned were in  vain. Republicans do not answer the calls or switch their phones off. 

As ArmInfo  reported earlier, Abrahamyan has recently taken a  decision to leave the RPA following his meeting wih Russian Prime  Minister Dmitry Medvedev in Moscow.  ArmInfo previously reported  about that meeting, citing its own sources. Abrahamyan confirmed that  information, however, he noted that the meeting did not cover  political issues. Nevertheless, ArmInfo's sources in the RPA claim  that it was Medvedev that advised Abrahamyan to leave the party after  the ex-prime minister complained that his position in the RPA has  seriously weakened.  Medvedev advised Abrahamyan to run in the  upcoming parliamentary elections as a member of the Gagik Tsarukyan  bloc.

 On returning to Armenia, Abrahamyan met with some prominent RPA  representatives and tried to persuade them to leave the RPA and join  the Gagik Tsarukyan bloc. The details of the talks are not clear,  however, Abrahamyan himself has submitted a notice to leave the party  and then met with Tsarukyan to discuss his inclusion in the Gagik  Tsarukyan bloc. The latter rejected Abrahamyan's request, saying that  the electorate will not welcome his in-law's inclusion in the bloc.  Tsarukyan reminded Abrahamyan of his speech during the RPA Council's  session in Feb 2015, when the ex-prime minister promised "to knock  some sense" into Tsarukyan's head.