ArmInfo. At the polling station N4/53, during Yerevan City Council elections, Armenian Prime Minister Karen Karapetyan voted for 'good Yerevan'. "Year after year elections in Armenia are becoming more fair and transparent," the head of the Government stated. Armenian Government head came to vote with her wife. The members of the electoral committee met his wife with flowers.
Having fulfilled his civil duty, the head of the Government commented Yelq bloc's statement on distributing pre electoral bribes and other electoral violations, accepting that during every elections violations are being registered. At the same time, he called not to make hurried conclusions and live the case to law enforcement officials. "Are we sure, that it was electoral bribery? Law enforcement officials work on it. We make conclusions based on a piece of paper. But if we want to become a constitutional state, we should wait law-enforcement officials' work conclusion," Karapetyan stated.
The Prime Minister called to be tolerant in the issue related to his Prime Minister post maintaining after April 2018. "We will see in 2018," he stressed.
Today, on May 14 Yerevan City Council elections are being conducted in Yerevan, the body which will elect Yerevan's Mayor. RPA electoral list leads active Mayor of Yerevan Taron Margaryan, Yerkir Tsirani Party list-Zaruhi Postanjyan, and the electora list of Yelq bloc-Nikol Pashinyan. Yelq bloc's list heads Nikol Pashinyan , then come Araik Harutyunyan and David Khajakyan. Yerkir Tsirani party is headed byex lawmaker Zaruhi Postanjyan, then come Mnatsakan Pakshiev and Sona Aghekyan. From the RepublicanParty of Armenia the list is headed by the active Mayor of Yerevan Taron Margaryan, then come well- known chess player, international grand master Smbat Lputyan and the director of one the biggest IT companies in Armenia, Synopsys Armenia, Hovik Musaelyan. As only 3 political forces participate the elections, all of them will get posts in Yerevan City Council (all 65). The force, which would get the majority of votes, will nominate its candidacy to Mayor (first number in the list). The number of candidates totals 308, 98 from them are women. Yerevan City Council elections' observation mission is being implemented by 17 local organizations (more than 5 thousand observers) and one international organization (10 observers).