RPA silent on new Armenian Prime Minister`s candidacy

  27 February 2013    Read: 852
RPA silent on new Armenian Prime Minister`s candidacy
The new government to be formed following the swearing in of the reelected president is being widely discussed.
According to Zhoghovurd daily, the candidacy of a new Prime Minister is debated by the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA), with ex-Yerevan Mayor, Gazprom deputy director Karen Karapetyan as the most likely nominee.

As the daily said, this is the reason Karapetyan has recently returned from Moscow to meet RPA representatives.

As RPA spokesman Eduard Sharmazanov said no governmental shuffles has been discussed at RPA. “It will be up to political majority and the president to decide on the governmental composition,” he said.

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