Martun Grigoryan still has time to voice opinion on candidate for  Gyumri mayor - MP

ArmInfo. The Republican Party of Armenia cannot put pressure on RA National Assembly deputy from the opposition "I Have the Honor" faction Martun Grigoryan on the issue  related to the Gyumri mayoral elections. This was stated by NA deputy  from the said faction Tigran Abrahamyan at a press conference on  April 3.

According to the preliminary data of the RA Central Election  Commission on the results of the Gyumri Council of Elders elections  on March 30, the distribution of mandates is as follows: "Civil  Contract" (Sarik Minasyan) - 14 mandates; Communist Party of Armenia  (Vardan Ghukasyan) - 8; "Mother Armenia" (Karen Simonyan) - 2; "Our  City" (Martun Grigoryan) - 6; "My Powerful Community" (Ruben  Mkhitaryan) - 3. Two opposition forces that entered the Gyumri  Council of Elders (the "My Powerful Community" party (Ruben  Mkhitaryan) and the "Mother Armenia" bloc (Karen Simonyan) expressed  their readiness to support his candidacy in the city mayoral  elections. Now, all eyes are on Martun Grigoryan, whose position will  determine whether an opposition representative will become the head  of the municipality or not.

In this regard, Tigran Abrahamyan reminded that Martun Grigoryan has  never been a member of the Republican Party, he became a member of  the National Assembly by quota from the Rodina party, headed by  former director of the National Security Service Artur Vanetsyan,  which together with the RPA formed the I Have the Honor faction.  Earlier, the RPA expressed its opinion on the elections in Gyumri,  which, however, the party considered inappropriate to make public, so  that it would not be perceived as pressure on Martun Grigoryan, and  even more so, so as not to make him vulnerable to a third party.  "Against the background of the information terror that is being  carried out against Martun Grigoryan, he still has time to express  his position. At least one thing is clear: both as a person and as a  politician, Grigoryan does not deserve the attitude that is observed  in the information space," Tigran Abrahamyan said. 

He also noted that against the backdrop of information terror against  Martun Grigoryan, the Republican Party, which is currently  celebrating its 35th anniversary, is also being targeted. "All  authors of this negativity towards the RPA should understand that the  party has long since developed immunity to this kind of attack. In  some cases, the RPA's response is proportional, in some cases -  disproportionate. By inflicting political blows on Martun Grigoryan,  some political forces in Armenia are trying to start a political  campaign against the RPA, which is unacceptable," the MP noted.