YEREVAN. – The Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP)-authorities relations, which seemed chilly following PAP Chairman Gagik Tsarukyan’s announcement with respect to the forthcoming presidential elections, have become very warm and stable again, Hraparak daily reports.

“On the very next day of the announcement, [several] PAP businessmen ‘presented themselves’ to the commander in chief of the country and expressed their readiness to take part in his election campaign, which they are already carrying out.  

As for Gagik Tsarukyan, PAP’s reliable sources informed that [President] Serzh Sargsyan’s person in charge of Kotayk Region is not at all the regional governor; the real responsibility is put upon Tsarukyan, and there is an arrangement that he will hold the [presidential] elections in the region and bring numerous votes for Serzh Sargsyan.     

Incidentally, Gagik Tsarukyan’s spokeswoman Iveta Tonoyan likewise was taking an active part in the New Year receptions [that were held] by the authorities,” Hraparak writes.