“Bostanjyan has said what he has said,” Baghdasar Mheryan, Press Secretary of the Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP), told the Yerkir newspaper, explaining the party’s position on a PAP member’s statement that the party will support Serzh Sargsyan in the 2013 presidential election. “You have jumped at the bait and are now fussy about it!” Mheryan said angrily.

The PAP has announced its position on coalition cooperation, Mheryan said. He added that Bostanjyan not only said the PAP would support Serzh Sargsyan, but he also said that PAP Chairman Gagik Tsarukyan would not run for presidency.