‘“I have convinced my friend Ruben Hayrapetyan to nominate his candidacy. Otherwise, I would have been alone in the National Assembly. I want him to come, too,’ NA [businessman] MP Samvel Aleksanyan said in an interview with Zhoghovurd. Earlier, Ruben Hayrapetyan had stated that only Samvel Aleksanyan could have convinced him in this country whether to run [in the elections],” Zhoghovurd writes.