DATE OF ELECTIONS PREFECT OF AVAN NOT DETERMINED YET

YEREVAN, APRIL 27. ARMINFO. The concrete date for holding elections to
prefect of Yerevan’s community Avan is not determined yet. Secretary
of Central Electoral Commission of Armenia Anna Aleksanian informed
ARMINFO.

She also mentioned there are not yet officially registered candidates
to the post of the prefect of Avan community. However, according to
non-official information, the elections to the post of the prefect of
the community will take place on May 22, and several candidates have
also declared about their intention to run for this post. 27 years old
Taron Margarian, son of Prime Minister of Armenia Andranik Margarian,
is the main candidate in the pre-election race. Taron Margarian is the
leader of Avan department of the Republican Party. He is the deputy
head of the department on bioresource management of the Ministry of
Nature Protection. The main opponent of Taron Margarian in the
elections is the secretary of the Avan branch of the Union of
volunteers Petros Amirian – brother-in-law of Lieut-Gen Manvel
Grigorian, UVY leader, deputy defence minister. The former prosecutor
of the community Nor-Nork Garnik Sukiasian has also expressed
intention to run for the post of the prefect of Avan. All the
candidates declare about their resoluteness to struggle fairly for
this post. It should be noted that on April 14 by a decision of the
government former prefect of Avan community was dismissed from his
post without any official motivation.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress