About a month ago, the second and the third presidents of Armenia, Robert
Kocharyan and Serzh Sargsyan, held a private meeting. The spotlight of the
meeting was the presidential election of 2018, Haykakan Zhamanak (Armenian
Time) daily says with reference to reliable sources.
The newspaper says during the meeting Sargsyan told
Kocharyan that in 2018 Seyran Ohanyan, Defense Minister of Armenia, will run
for president from the Republican Party of Armenia in 2018 no matter whether
the constitutional reforms on the republic's transition to parliamentary regime
are completed or not.
According to the source, Kocharyan replied that
Ohanyan's candidacy is actually acceptable to him. At the same time, Kocharyan
failed to promise that he himself will not run for president in 2018.
The thing is that Kocharyan is going to run for
president in 2018 if his candidacy is supported by the Prosperous Armenia Party
(PAP), Haykakan Zhamanak says. "But if the PAP advances its leader Gagik
Tsarukyan's nominee, Kocharyan will support Ohanyan", says the newspaper.