YEREVAN. – Haykakan Zhamanak reporter ascertained from well-informed sources that Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) Chairman Gagik Tsarukyan visited the Presidential Palace in the first days of the start of the campaigning for the forthcoming presidential election, the daily reports. 

“Our reporter asked Tsarukyan’s spokeswoman Iveta Tonoyan to either confirm or deny this information; she said it is false. The well-informed source, however, personally witnessed Tsarukyan entering 26 Baghramian [Street; that is, the address of the Presidential Palace].     

It is assumed that Gagik Tsarukyan offered his services to [the ruling Republican Party’s (RPA) presidential candidate, incumbent President] Serzh Sargsyan in the [presidential] election slated for February 18 and some arrangements were made between the RPA and PAP leaders,” Haykakan Zhamanak writes.