YEREVAN. – Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) Chairman Gagik Tsarukyan is stuck between a rock and a hard place; that is, between the alternative and the pro-government platforms, Zhoghovurd daily reports.  

“It has long been known that PAP is divided into two parts: the business sector is on the one side and the politicized part, on the other side. The PAP sources informed Zhoghovurd that Tsarukyan is attempting to satisfy both sides by always making contradictory promises to them.      

Before each election Tsarukyan assured the business, the vote-getting sector that they will be a part of the ruling coalition in several days, but assured former FM Vartan Oskanian’s wing that they will go to confrontation [against the authorities].     

As a result, however, Tsarukyan plays his own game by developing his own business and not bearing personal accountability for the team,” Zhoghovurd writes.