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| 14:47:31 | 06-06-2005 | Politics |
AUTHORITIES RE-ELECTED AS A RESULT OF DEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS
The peculiarity of the elections of local governing bodies that took place
yesterday in some communities of Armenia is that in all of them the present
authorities were re-elected. In Spitak 6 774 of the 11 100 electors took
part in the elections. The present mayor Vanik Asatryan gained 4 272 votes,
Varazdat Danielyan – 1 808, and Aramayis Matevosyan – 319.
The hottest struggle was expected in Davtashen. From 26 835 electors only 12
503 took part in the election. Present community head Sourik Ghoukasyan
gained 6311 votes, and ex-deputy Rouben Gevorgyan – 5396.
In Norq-Marash community 5127 electors from 8 300 participated in the
elections. 5040 of them voted for the community head.
In the Malatia-Sebastia community only 27 005 electors from 92 500
participated in the elections. 21 022 of them voted for the present
community head Aghvan Grigoryan, and Samvel Hovsepyan gained 4 672 votes.
Strangely enough, the Central Electoral Committee did not receive complaints
from any candidate.
All the political powers found these elections extremely important as a
usual «exam» of democracy. As a result of the democratic elections the local
authorities were re-elected