Haykakan Zhamanak: Prosperous Armenia to become opposition
After Yerevan municipal elections, Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) has nevertheless decided, at the beginning of the parliament’s autumn session, to announce that it is becoming an opposition party, Haykakan Zhamanak daily says. The paper’s sources close to the party confirmed this information.
According to the same sources, Prosperous Armenia is planning to make structural changes in the party in autumn, and is also going to separate the business wing from the party. The authorities are already getting ready for the 2017-2018 elections, and are planning to use the same scenario as in 2006-2008, when Orinats Yerkir Party was the instrument or “opposition.”