Businessman Gagik Tsarukian and his close associates affiliated with his Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) are too wealthy to be in opposition to the government, a well-known BHK member said on Monday.
Vartan Bostanjian, a former parliament deputy, claimed that they will risk losing their assets if they seriously challenge President Serzh Sarkisian.
"Capital never defies authorities because it is moving along the same vector," he told reporters. "Within Prosperous Armenia there are people who have amassed some fortunes and those fortunes won't allow them to opt for confrontations with the authorities."
The BHK, which is widely linked with former President Robert Kocharian, was a member of Armenia's governing coalition until last month. It pulled out of Sarkisian's coalition government shortly after parliamentary elections in which it finished second.
Armenian News
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