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.