“Gagik Tsarukyan is in the first place both as president and as prime-minister,” announced sociologist Aharon Adibekyan when presenting the results of a recent survey. According to him, polls show that if there are by-elections, PA party will be in the first place. It is worth mentioning that once in the past Adibekyan said concerning Tsarukyan that “he was a politician with restaurant mentality” and his party had a very low reputation. What did happen that made Tsarukyan and his party be in the first place? “It is not my opinion, it is the result of polls, and I don’t have the right to change the results with my own opinion,” said Adibekyan to our correspondent. He refuted the rumors that the PA has given him an order to show a higher reputation as a result of polls. Who paid for those polls? “When we work for free and spend money only on transport and print materials, we have other expectations and hope that we will bring that money back. When we do like this it is much cheaper for us and our staff representatives know what they are doing,” said Adibekyan. Indeed two weeks ago he said that for a survey they need 2400 questionnaires, each of which costs 10 dollars. It means that for every survey they spend 24,000 dollars.
