YEREVAN. – The Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) will convene a faction session at the National Assembly (NA) on October 1, Zhamanak daily reports.  

“The PAP members will discuss the [Prosecutor General’s] petition to strip [The Civilitas Foundation founder, former FM, and currently PAP MP] Vartan Oskanian of his [parliamentary] immunity, and the NA Agenda.

The [PAP] meeting yesterday [Friday] was very short. [PAP Chairman Gagik] Tsarukyan said the charges against Oskanian are groundless and that they will present substantiations. So, on Monday the PAP members will distribute The Civilitas’ report and the remaining evidence at the parliament.    

It is apparent that the political majority votes in accordance with the faction’s decision, and not with substantiations, and the [ruling Republican Party] RPA already announced that it will vote in favor of the decision to strip Oskanian of his immunity. 

[But] According to Zhamanak’s PAP sources, negotiations—in the [President and RPA leader] Serzh Sargsyan-Gagik Tsarukyan format—are not ruled out on Saturday and Sunday,” Zhamanak writes.