ArmInfo. Rating candidates from the ruling "My Step" bloc also defeated their opponents from other forces by a large margin.
The largest number of votes in the rating system throughout the country was received by the candidate from the "My step" bloc Sasun Mikayelyan, who ran for 31739 from Kotayk region, followed by the acting First Deputy Prime Minister Ararat Mirzoyan with 25,550 votes.
By the way, for Mirzoyan it was especially important to get a large number of votes, since this is what predetermines the realization of his political ambitions, namely, Mirzoyan is aiming for the post of president of parliament. His competitor in this regard was fellow party member Alen Simonyan, and it was their political ambitions that depended on the results of the rating vote.
But, judging by the results of the vote, Mirzoyan will take the chair of the speaker, since Simonyan won 21,812 votes. The third in the ranking list goes Minister of Emergency Situations Feliks Tsolakyan, who also gained high interest rates during his stay in the former ruling Republican Party. Tsolakyan scored 24172 votes. The fourth is a little-known politician Garik Sargsyan with 22,604 votes.
It is noteworthy that the first five rating candidates from the former ruling Republican Party are several times inferior in terms of the votes received by candidates from the "My Step" bloc. Meanwhile, during the parliamentary elections of 2017, the situation was exactly the opposite. Thus, the first number of the list received the most votes on the rating system from the RPA, former Minister of Defense Vigen Sargsyan 4,087, then follows the former head of the RPA faction Vahram Baghdasaryan with 2660 votes, the third is RPA deputy chairman Armen Ashotyan with 2396 votes MPs candidate in the Ararat region Murad Muradyan won 1,840 votes, and already former Deputy Speaker Edward Sharmazanov in Lori - 1,663 votes.
Very low rates in the rating system and in the "Bright Armenia" party that went to parliament, which means that the votes of the PPA were mainly given for the party leader Gagik Tsarukyan.
Thus, Eduard Babayan, the head of Gagik Tsarukyan's guard, scored the biggest number of votes from the PPA, against which a criminal case had recently been opened into the beating of a man. He scored 7472 votes, and then followed Naira Zohrabyan, who ran in the Syunik region and complained about the use of administrative resources by Governor Hunan Poghosyan. Zohrabyan got 2,148 votes. MP Sergey Bagratyan received 1492 votes. MPsVahe Enfiajyan and Tigran Urikhanyan received a little more than a thousand votes