Today, the press wrote that PAP leader Gagik Tsarukyan has decided to get rid of the services of speaker Iveta Tsarukyan and, accordingly, first of all, from the position of the director of the media department of Kentron TV, and the fate of the parliamentary mandate is still in question.

First of all, let’s note that Iveta Tonoyan has not held the position of director of the “Epicenter” news service of the TV company for a year, after receiving the mandate of the deputy, she is no longer a member of the board of directors of the Center TV company.

In a conversation with VERELQ, a member of the “Tsarukyan” faction Naira Zohrabyan denied those rumors. according to him, a journalist should understand what he is writing about. “After being elected deputy, Iveta Tonoyan could not do other paid work, we are also talking about the news director of the “Kentron” TV station,” he said.

As for the issue of depriving Tonoyan of his mandate, Naira Zohrabyan considered it simply nonsense. 

“I know few people who would be able to do the enormous work that Iveta Tonoyan does as Gagik Tsarukyan’s spokesperson and MP with such efficiency and responsibility,” he emphasized.

Iveta Tonoyan also made a statement.

“Thank you to all my colleagues for the concern, some also for spreading dishonest and untrue information with great diligence. I officially declare that Gagik Tsarukyan did not release me from any position and did not dismiss me. And this is for the simple reason that on June 1, 2017, as soon as I assumed the powers of a member of the National Assembly, I stopped being the head of the news department of Kentron TV. I am sure that everyone is aware of what kind of work a deputy of the RA National Assembly can perform according to the law, and the functions of the head of the news department in a TV company are not among those. About that I announced the date of receiving the mandate.

During this period, the Epicenter news program had and still has a chief editor, Baghdasar Mheryan, who performed those functions. And my cooperation with Kentron TV, as Gagik Tsarukyan’s spokesperson, was on a daily basis and will continue. In order not to end up in a purely ridiculous situation, I would advise you not to use any more futile tricks to force the desired into reality.”