Karen Karapetyan: year after year elections in Armenia are becoming more fair and transparent

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).