Monday, September 18 2023 20:14

ArmInfo. Former mayor of Yerevan, candidate for mayor from the National Progress party Hayk  Marutyan published a list of newly elected members of the Council of  Elders of Yerevan from his party and expressed his position on  creating a coalition with any political force.

<Dear Yerevan residents, I reaffirm my position. We exclude  cooperation with the <Civil Contract> party.  And the rest in the  video.

What I declare was confirmed at a meeting of the newly elected  faction of the National Congress party by unanimous vote.

Hayk Marutyan

Hayk Grigoryan

Isabella Abgaryan

Grigor Yeritsyan

Kristina Vardanyan

Pedro Zarokyan

Joseph Kubatyan

Samvel Melikyan

Araksi Dilanyan

Aram Torosyan

Robert Tsovyan

Narine Aramyan

Tigran Petrosyan

Aram Manukyan>, he wrote on his Facebook page.

At the same time, in his video message, Marutyan stated that the  Armenian authorities were defeated in these elections.

He recalled that there are 65 mandates in the Council of Elders, and  they are distributed as follows. :  "Civil Contract" - 24 mandates,  "National Progress" - 14 mandates, "Mother Armenia" bloc - 12  mandates, "Republic" party - 8 mandates, "Public Voice" party - 7  mandates. Marutyan added that thus, the authorities have only 24  mandates.

Regarding the possibility of creating a coalition with other  opposition political forces, pointing out that all four political  forces that had passed the threshold had ideological and political  differences, Marutyan offered himself as the mayor of Yerevan.

At the same time, he called on the rest of the opposition forces to  support him without creating a coalition, ordinary and shadow  agreements and preconditions as a representative of the opposition  force that received the most votes, and to continue their activities  in the opposition field.

According to him, in this way the "Civil Contract" will be deprived  of power.  If the opposition forces do not want to support this  proposal, Marutyan proposed another option - new elections.

Marutyan said that the opposition can ensure that a quorum is not  ensured at the first meeting for the mayoral election, for which  purpose 33 members of the opposition factions of the Council of  Elders will not take part in the meeting.

The elections to the Council of Elders of Yerevan took place on  September 17. According to the voting results, the ruling Civil  Contract party and the leader of its list, Vice Mayor Tigran Avinyan,  are in the lead in the mayoral elections of the Armenian capital,  with 32.57% of votes. National Progress party, led by the former  mayor of Yerevan Hayk Marutyan,  is in the second place with 18.89%  of the votes. The "Mother Armenia" bloc, led by former MP Andranik  Tevanyan, closes the TOP-3. According to preliminary data, the bloc  receives 15.43% of the votes. The remaining political forces' votes  were distributed as follows:  "Public Voice" Party - 9.68% "Fair  Armenia" Party - 1.12% "Victory" Party - 1.71% "Uzh Hayrenyats" Party  - 0.74% European Party of Armenia - 1.11% "For Social Justice" Party  - 0.34% "Republic" Party - 11.32% "United Armenia" Party - 0.55%  "Bright Armenia" Party - 1.8% "Democratic Consolidation" Party " -  1.01% "Country to Live " Party- 3.64%. The Council of Elders of  Yerevan consists of 65 members and elects the mayor for a term of 5  years.