YERVAND ZAKHARYAN ADVOCATES ELECTION OF YEREVAN MAYOR BY ELDERS

YEREVAN, JULY 18. ARMINFO. The Yerevan municipality and Yerevan
itself are ready that the capital’s mayor will be elected, mayor of
Yerevan Yervand Zakharyan stated journalists today.

In his words, the main task is that the capital is to be developed
during his period of office, regardless of the fact that he will be
appointed or elected. “Both the municipality and the Yerevan
residents are ready to cooperate and develop Yerevan in future”,
Zakharyan noted. He also informed that he advocates the election of
Yerevan mayor by elders.

To note, within the constitutional reforms process framework the CE
Venice Commission recommended Armenia not to appoint a Yerevan mayor,
but elect.