Vardan Ghukasyan elected Gyumri mayor 

ArmInfo. Opposition candidate Vardan Ghukasyan, who headed the Communist Party list and received the most votes among the opposition, was re-elected Mayor of Gyumri.

All 18 members of the Gyumri Council of Elders present voted for  Ghukasyan. The representatives of the ruling "GD" are boycotting the  meeting.

Thus, the single opposition candidate Vardan Ghukasyan, who  previously served as the mayor of Gyumri for 13 years (1999-2012),  has once again headed the second largest city in Armenia after 13  years.

On March 30 of this year, early elections to the Gyumri Council of  Elders were held. The ruling Civil Contract party received the  largest number of votes (35.47% of the votes), but this percentage  was not enough for the State Duma candidate Sarik Minasyan to head  the city. The united opposition decided to nominate a single  candidate in the person of the Communist Party representative Vardan  Ghukasyan, who received 18.41%.

Today, before the first meeting of the Gyumri Council of Elders, the  candidate for the post of mayor of Gyumri from the ruling Civil  Contract party, acting mayor Sarik Minasyan, demanded that new, early  elections be held.