Another incident involving a mayoral candidate occurs in Vanadzor 

ArmInfo. The criminal passions in the fight for the positions of heads of Armenian communities do not subside. Another incident involving Arkady Peleshyan, mayoral candidate from the Armenian Rebirth Party, has occurred in Vanadzor.  

According to witnesses, on Tuesday evening Peleshyan attacked Rafael  Grigoryan, the Primate of the Vanadzor Diocese of the Armenian  Evangelical Church, under the influence of intoxicants. One of  Grigoryan's assistants has told ArmInfo on condition of anonymity  that Peleshyan was also trying to fire at the hand and leg of  Grigoryan from a firearm, and then Peleshyan severely beat . It is  noteworthy that during the incident the members of Grigoryan's family  were in the building of the Vanadzor Diocese of the Armenian  Evangelical Church. There were also foreign guests there. However,  they failed to prevent the incident.  Only after the racket raised by  the members of Grigoryan's family, the neighbors and other relatives  came to help Grigoryan and Peleshyan left the building together with  his teammates. The cause of the incident was the mayoral candidate's  discontent with the fact that Grigoryan and the churchgoers gave  their votes in favor of the Republican Party of Armenia allegedly at  the instigation of Deputy Chief of Armenian Police Anubagh Hambaryan. 

A criminal case has been instituted. Peleshyan is wanted. The police  are deciphering the data of the surveillance cameras in the site of  the incident and adjacent areas.    

Similar incidents occurred in Sevan and Gyumri in the run-up to the  local elections. On October 1, a scuffle occurred between the  supporters of Sargis Muradyan, the recently elected mayor of Sevan  (supported by the ruling Republican Party of Armenia) and the  supporters of Muradyan's opponents. The residents of Sevan say that  scuffles organized by Muradyan's supporters were registered  throughout the period of the electoral campaign. Criminal cases have  been instituted over some of the incidents.      

Previously, a tragic incident was registered in Gyumri. According to  the official story, during the electoral campaign Arshak, the son of  Vardevan Grigoryan, mayoral candidate from the Prosperous Armenia  Party (PAP), committed a suicide. However, the PAP is rather  skeptical about the official story.