The men which could be compromising for Serzh Sargsyan and Robert Kocharyan were discussed as candidates for prime minister, Secretary of the Heritage party, political expert, Stepan Safaryan, has written at his Facebook page. Among these men, Safaryan mentioned Seyran Ohanyan, Armen Gevorkyan, Vigen Sargsyan, Karen Karapetyan and Hovik Abrahamyan.
He said that during the first attempt to appoint Hovik Abrahamyan as a premier last week, Prosperous Armenia Party said that it will not join the ruling coalition. Then Karen Karapetyan's name was put into circulation, but there was no reaction from the side of the second president of Armenia Robert Kocharyan. "However, Hovik Abrahamyan was appointed. Leaving aside the problem, how the PAP will act, we have got an impression that Serzh Sargsyan has chosen the compromising option not for Kocharyan but for the PAP leader Gagik Tsarukyan. If so, we shall soon have either a big conflict between the relatives Tsarukyan and Abrahamyan, or between the business-partners Tsarukyan and Kocharyan. If there is no conflict, it means that Serzh Sargsyan and Robert Kocharyan have been conducting a coordinated game - one is controlling the power and another one - the opposition", - Safaryan said.
To note, PAP has got two leaders - a formal one in the person of oligarch Gagik Tsarukyan and an off-stage one in the person of the second president of Armenia Robert Kocharyan, which formed the PAP in 2004.