Gyumri City Council holds first meeting

ArmInfo.  The candidate for the post of mayor of Gyumri from the ruling Civil Contract party, acting mayor Sarik Minasyan believes that new, early elections should be held. He wrote about this on his Facebook page, emphasizing that the Civil Contract will not participate in the first meeting of the new  Council of Elders formed based on the results of the elections held  on March 30.

According to Minasyan, the Civil Contract will not participate in the  meeting, "which will be held with the participation of those who  fraudulently extorted votes from Gyumri residents, and  representatives of forces ready to give them to others."

"I call on the council members who are concerned about the future of  Gyumri to vote according to their conscience, not to accept a  decision imposed on you as a result of someone else's calculations  and not to darken the future of Gyumri.  In the current situation,  the governance of Gyumri is doomed, a crisis is inevitable.

Gyumri should not become a city with an uncertain future, this is not  in the interests of the Gyumri people. Your child and you personally  will be responsible for the consequences of your wrong step, no  matter how you avoid this responsibility.

For the sake of Gyumri and the residents of Gyumri, we must hold new,  early elections," he wrote.

The first meeting of the new Council of Elders is currently taking  place in Gyumri, where the mayor of the city will be elected: the  ruling "GD" is boycotting it. The meeting, which began with a prayer  and the anthem of Gyumri, is being held by the head of the Communist  Party Vardan Ghukasyan.

Present in the hall are all the political forces that passed the  threshold in the recent elections, except for the representatives of  the country's ruling party, who failed to get 50%+1.

Earlier, opposition candidate Vardan Ghukasyan, who headed the  Communist Party list and received the most votes among the  opposition, won support from his opposition competitors, which will  allow him to lead the city