ArmInfo. Tsaroukyan bloc and Social-Democrat Hunchakyan Party stopped electoral race related cooperation negotiation.
According to the information of Hunchakyan Party, "the negotiations had been initiated due to Prosperous Armenia Leader Gagik Tsaroukyan initiative. Hunchakyan Party agreed to join the platform allied by Prosperous Armenia, Ramkavar Azatakan and Armenian National Movement, as well as the Solidarity Movement. Political consultations have been held at all the levels, including immediately with Tsaroukyan, and agreements were reached with him due to all possible issues. Hunchakyan Party should join the participation with 8 rating based candidates, and exclusively at own costs. The leadership of Hunchakyan party was ready to support the bloc within the terms mentioned, but during recent days political agreements have been denied several times, and due to this reason Hunchakyan Party quits any negotiations with the bloc."
In his turn, Gagik Tasroukyan's press secretary Iveta Tonoyan published a statement reading that "Hunchakyan Party reacted the PAP leader claim for consolidation and joint efforts to solve existing problems that the country faces nowadays. Like in the case with Ramkavar Azatakan party, there are many disagreements between diaspora political entities. Hence, delivering a respect to the party and its representatives, Tsaroukyan does not consider expedient to continue cooperation at this stage," Tonoyan mentioned. At the same time Tonoyan mentioned that the improvement of Diaspora-Armenia relations is one of the priorities of the bloc and involvement of political powers in this process.To note, Tsaroukyan left politics after a conflict with President Serzh Sargsyan, when he decided to join the radical opposition. Earlier ArmInfo's sources close to the presidential administration reported that Tsaroukyan reached an agreement with President Serzh Sargsyan regarding his return to mainstream politics and consolidation with the ruling Republican Party of Armenia after the parliamentary elections of 2017. Anyway, now Prosperous Armenia holds negotiations with Armenian National Movement, Solidarity Movement on joint bloc based participation.