YEREVAN. – The ruling Republican Party (RPA) and the non-governmental Prosperous Armenian Party (PAP) have reached an agreement with respect to the forthcoming capital city Yerevan Council elections, Zhamanak daily reports.  

“This refers to the quotas for distributing election bribes. It is known that the RPA and PAP leaders, [President] Serzh Sargsyan and Gagik Tsarukyan, met last week.   

According to our information, they also discussed matters related to these elections and, as a result of the reached agreements, PAP was permitted to distribute [election] bribes to some extent.

At the same time, Tsarukyan expressed a wish that PAP, [and] not the [opposition] Heritage Party, should be in second place. According to rumors circulating in the political backstage, Serzh Sargsyan made it understood that they [that is, PAP] may have [such] hope and [may] work in this direction,” Zhamanak writes.