ArmInfo. Only a day after Prime Minister Karen Karapetyan's statement about his intention to join Republican Party 7000 people have submitted applications for membership, Deputy Speaker of parliament, Spokesperson of the Republican Party Eduard Sharmazanov told ArmInfo's correspondent.
To note, Karapetyan, Armenian Minister of Transport, Communication and Information Technologies Vahan Martirosyan, Minister of Agriculture Ignatiy Arakelyan, Defense Minister Vigen Sargsyan, Minister of Healthcare Levon Altunyan, governor of Syunik region Vahe Hakobyan submitted applications to join the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (RPA). Karapetyan and Martirosyan explained their intention with a wish to work as one team for more efficient implementation of the given tasks. Arakelyan motivated own decision with the argument that RP ideology is close to him, he always took RP side and voted for this Party.
Culture Minister Armen Amiryan has made no decision yet to join the RPA. He decided to wait until April 2017. But in April 2017 Armenia will hold parliamentary elections and then the government will resign.