YEREVAN. – Some members of the non-pro-government Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) are demanding that PAP Chairman Gagik Tsarukyan discharge three PAP MPs from the party, 168 Zham daily reports.   

“They are accused of violating party discipline, [and] not carrying out the party [National Assembly] faction’s decision to vote against the government program.  

[But] in reality, the representatives of a party wing are attempting to clean PAP from the unwanted elements; from those who consider the PAP’s mission to be cooperation with the authorities.       

These [three] men became PAP members by considering the circumstance of PAP being a [ruling] coalition party.

[But] these MPs deny the fact of the existence of inner-party discontent in connection with them,” 168 Zham writes.