YEREVAN. – Armenia’s opposition Republic Party (RP) leader Aram Sargsyan, who had gone to the US on September 22 and together with RP Political Board member Artak Zeynalyan, will return to Armenia on Saturday, Hraparak daily reports.   

“In the US, they met with officials from the public sector and the Department of State alike. 

To our query as to whether he will run in the forthcoming [presidential] elections, Aram Sargsyan said such decision depends on numerous circumstances and that he never makes decisions for the sake of an office; time will tell. 

[But] Irrespective of whether or not Aram Sargsyan will run, he will become one of the key representatives that will consolidate these elections’ western axis, at whose center, according to some assessments, will be [opposition Heritage Party leader, American-Armenian] Raffi Hovannisian,” Hraparak writes.