YEREVAN. – Armenian Presidential Chief of Staff Vigen Sargsyan has recently begun to seriously prepare for holding the position of the Prime Minister, Zhoghovurd daily reports. 

“This is [true] especially after when [serving PM] Tigran Sargsyan’s government failed to carry out [President] Serzh Sargsyan’s instruction to ensure a 7 percent economic growth, and, now, the leader of the country is expected to perhaps dissolve the government.  

“As Zhoghovurd’s well-informed sources inform, Vigen Sargsyan has even started to send various groups to the RF [i.e., the Russian Federation], to carry out lobbying with respective circles in this direction.   

“But we were unable to receive [any] comments from the Office of the President in this regard,” Zhoghovurd writes.