Tsarukyan deprived of monopoly in the sphere of sport?
Minister of Sport and Youth Affairs Hrachia Rostomyan will not be in the new government. It is yet unknown who will replace Rostomyan, but for the moment the issue of releasing Rostomyan as Minister seems to be resolved.
Hrachia Rostomyan became Minister of the Republic of Armenia, as the person, who controls the sphere of sports, wanted this- Rostomyan was true "Hrachik" of the Chairman of the Olympic Committee Gagik Tsarukyan. Since the question of the following duties of the executive has not yet fully resolved, it is difficult to say whether the dismissal of the latter will occur on the same logic, taking into account that the period of tenure of previous Ministers was completed at that time when their sponsor decided that from now the individual's choice on that position was inappropriate.
So, Minister Armen Grigoryan was dismissed on the basis of purely personal motives, as he disappointed Gagik Tsarukyan. Artur Petrosyan was also dismissed, taking into account that the circumstances of his exit from the coalition PAP, then the opportunity to prove himself was given young Rostomyan. The incumbent Minister, however, is non-partisan, but it is not a secret that he has been in office, as there is some agreement, because the monopoly of sphere of sport still remains in the hands of the Chairman of the Olympic Committee.
Based on this reality, it is probably not so interesting Rostomyan's exemption from the post of the Minister as who will replace him as the Minister of Sport and Youth Affairs.
If it is decide to withdraw the sphere of sport from the control of Gagik Tsarukyan, the choice of the Minister will stop on someone who is not under the power of PAP, and who can demonstrate sufficient independence to work so that the last word was not for the Chairman of the Olympic Committee, but the Minister. If however the sphere of the monopoly of sport will remain in Tsarukyan's hands, he will also continue to appoint Ministers of Sports and Youth Affairs.
Lusine Kesoyan