Gagik Tsarukyan won’t run for presidency

Mediamax News Agency, Armenia
Dec 12 2012

Gagik Tsarukyan won’t run for presidency

Yerevan/Mediamax/. The Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) won’t nominate
its own candidate in upcoming presidential elections.

The decision was made at the joint session of the PAP faction and
Political Council today.

`PAP President Gagik Tsarukyan stated in his opening speech that he
won’t run for the presidency. He thanked his colleagues for their full
trust and support’, the statement of the PAP press service reads this.

“Based on the statement made by Gagik Tsarukyan, the joint session of
the PAP faction and Political Council made the following 2 decisions:

1. The PAP won’t nominate its own candidate in upcoming presidential elections.

2. The PAP won’t back any of the candidates in upcoming presidential
elections”, the statement reads.