YEREVAN. - The ruling coalition’s Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) has decided that the Football Federation of Armenia President and RPA MP Ruben Hayrapetyan will run—in the majority election system—for the upcoming parliamentary elections, Hayrapetyan himself informed during a press conference on Friday. He added, however, that he still does not know in which election district he will run.    

In response to the query as to why he changed his previous decision of not running in the elections, Hayrapetyan said he is not an independent man, he has a political party, RPA decided that Hayrapetyan must run, and he simply is carrying out the Party’s decisions.

Nonetheless, he believes the parliament is not his place, but he will indulge in legislative work if reelected MP. 

And with respect to his friend, businessman MP Samvel Aleksanyan’s statement that he has left his business to his wife so he can engage in politics, Ruben Hayrapetyan noted that he was unlucky with his wife in this regard, but “my son deals with my businesses.”

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