“According to some PAP members, there is a tentative agreement, at the level of the RPA [i.e., the ruling Republican Party] and the PAP leaders, that the PAP will be in second place [in the aforesaid vote] because despite the fact that the ruling party’s ‘brain centers’ were finding that it must be seen to it that the [opposition Heritage Party-led] ‘Barev [Hello], Yerevan’ bloc should be in second place and that the unity of the three EPP [that is, the European People’s Party member] parties should take place in the capital city [and] under the flag of European integration, Heritage does not ‘stretch’ [that far].
‘[But] we are facing another danger. It appears that a wing of the party will leave the party after the [Sunday,] May 5 elections, [and] this cannot continue like this; that is for sure,’ our PAP interlocutor said,” Hraparak writes.
