During the May 4 broadcast of the "Herankar" program on Shant TV, anchor Nver Mnatsakanyan asked his guest Gagik Tzarukyan, who heads the Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) if reports to the effect that the PAP's activities weren't going so well were accurate. Mr. Tzarukyan responded by saying that if sociologist Aharon Adibekyan, the source of those reports, could back up his assertions he would pay the sociologist one million dollars. Mr. Tzarukyan added that if Mr. Adibekyan failed to substantiate his claims he should issue a public apology to that effect. Today, at a press conference, Mr. Adibekyan, who runs the "Sociometer" sociological center, was reminded of the PAP leader's comments by reporters. In response, Mr. Adibekyan stated, "I regret that a political leader with such influence seeks to enter the ranks of the political elite with such a restaurant mentality and to control a political force that entertains the thought of becoming, if not the first, then the second political force, and who compares sociology with a nightclub band that plays a song about "the brother of the king". He was suddenly interrupted by Gagik Tzarukyan's press secretary Khachik Galstyan who said that the PAP leader didn't compare sociology with a nightclub band but that he explained his opinion about similar sociological questions in a manner accessible to the people. Mr. Adibekyan shot back that if Mr. Tzarukyan had been properly briefed by his press secretary as to what the published figure meant, he wouldn't have said what he did. "During the presidential elections they also deceived Tzarukyan by telling him that the party has 300,000 members. And he believed them. Why do you deceive that man?"