YEREVAN. – The Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) is concealing like state secret the whereabouts of PAP Chairman Gagik Tsarukyan, Hraparak daily reports. 

“Everything is being done so that no one would know where he has gone when the [National Assembly] NA was discussing the matter of a potential presidential candidate [that is, former FM and PAP MP Vartan Oskanian] to be nominated by PAP.

The circles close to Oskanian claim he [Tsarukyan] has gone nowhere, [that] he is sitting at his home. [But] Those closer to Tsarukyan say he is not here [in Armenia].

As is known, the PAP leader must make a final decision within this one week as to the format whereby he will participate in the [forthcoming] presidential elections, and inform [President] Serzh Sargsyan about his decision, as they had agreed before leaving. 

‘Tsarukyan faces the decision of changing the ‘boss,’ [and] he went to Ukraine to peacefully contemplate,’ some PAP members quietly informed,” Hraparak writes.