“They say the PM behaved very pompously during the meeting with him [Tsarukyan] around reaching an agreement on the Government’s program, and this offended Gagik Tsarukyan.
And they say the real reason is Tsarukyan’s coercion to appoint PAP-member, factually non-party affiliate Hrachya Rostomyan as Sport and Youth Affairs Minister. And this became the reason that Tigran Sargsyan wing [ruling Republican Party] RPA-member, ex-NA Speaker Samvel Nikoyan remained simply a rank-and-file MP.
Otherwise, RPA’s then-MP [former capital city Yerevan Mayor] Gagik Beglaryan was to become the Sport and Youth Affairs [Minister] and Samvel Nikoyan [was to be appointed] Transport and Communication Minister,” Zhamanaki Mitk writes.
