"Zhoghovurd" daily writes: "According to the information of "Zhoghovurd" daily newspaper, one of the issues on the agenda of the ruling "Civil Agreement" party board meeting held yesterday was to discuss the candidacy of the new governor of Kotayk. However, our government sources convey that there were more urgent internal political issues at the session, which is why the agenda discussion of the governor's candidacy was postponed. As we reported earlier, the former governor of Kotayk, Aharon Sahakyan, was the main, according to our sources, the only candidate for the position left vacant after moving to the National Assembly.
However, "Zhoghovurd" daily has learned new details from the non-governmental processes surrounding this position.
According to our sources close to the government, Ashkhen Hayrapetyan, the former assistant of NA Speaker Alen Simonyan, who is also known in the press as an "iron man", has a great desire to become governor of Kotayk. According to the "Zhoghovurd" daily newspaper, it is Hayrapetyan who is trying to understand from various circles how he can "reach" that position. In fact, within the government, they are trying to understand Stepanyan's final position, before bringing the issue of the governor's candidacy back to the agenda of the CP department.
It should be reminded that Ashkhen Hayrapetyan's father, Hamlet Hayrapetyan, held the position of Kotayk's deputy governor from 2015 to June 2018 and was known as a member or supporter of the RPA.
According to "Zhoghovurd" daily, Hamlet Hayrapetyan's decision to leave the post of deputy governor in 2018 was made by then governor Romanos Petrosyan, although officially his release was formalized "according to his own application".
Thus, the appointment of the governor of Kotayk, which was supposed to be discussed yesterday, has been postponed for now."
