YEREVAN. – The ruling Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) is going to convene a congress on November 26, and as a result, the makeup of the RPA executive body will change to a large extent, according to Zhoghovurd daily.

“Zhoghovurd has learned that [President and RPA Chairman] Serzh Sargsyan plans to completely change the ‘criminal’ picture of the RPA, so that the party is represented with a new, ‘intelligent’ image in the parliamentary election to be held on April 2, 2017.

“On the other hand, there is much talk in the political arena that, by moving the main ‘providers’ of votes for him to the background and thereby upsetting them, Serzh Sargsyan is cutting the [very tree] ‘branch’ on which he is sitting .

“But Serzh Sargsyan is preparing a so-called replacement staff for several years. In other words, especially the youth wing of the ruling system is convinced that the ‘new branch,’ on which the authorities will be ‘sitting,’ has grown a long time ago, and it is time to ‘cut the old branches,’” wrote Zhoghovurd.