Thursday, April 10 2014

President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan
has started consultations with representatives of political forces concerning
the candidature of the 13th prime minister of Armenia.

 

According to ArmInfo's correspondent, the first to
come to meet with the President were representatives of the Armenian
Revolutionary Federation Dashnaktsutyun.

 

Earlier the head of the ARFD's parliamentary group
Armen Rustamyan told ArmInfo that they would appear at the meeting with seven
proposals on how to bring the country out of the crisis. "But even if the
proposals are accepted, we will not still agree to become part of the ruling
coalition. Nor will this mean that we will support Sargsyan's candidate,"
Rustamyan said.  Prosperous Armenia
Party is represented by former Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian and MP Stepan
Margaryan.

 

Earlier Spokesman of the party's leader Gagik
Tsarukyan Iveta Tonoyan told ArmInfo that Tsarukyan was also going to attend
the consultations so as to familiarize the President with Armenia's urgent
problems and his vision of how to solve them, while Margaryan told journalists
that the party was not going to join the ruling coalition.

 

Today the President is also to meet with
representatives of the coalition Orinats Yerkir party.

 

In the evening the Supreme Body of the ruling
Republican Party will make known the name of the 13th prime minister.

 

The most probable candidate is Speaker of the Armenian
Parliament Hovik Abrahamyan. The other possible candidates are Defense Minister
Seyran Ohanyan and Deputy Prime Minister Armen Gevorgyan.

 

The Armenian National Congress and Heritage Party have
refused to take part in the consultations with the President.