ARMENIANS TO CONTEST LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS IN SOUTHERN GEORGIA
Armenpress
Sept 12 2006
AKHALKALAKI, SEPTEMBER 12, ARMENPRESS: The deadline for registration
of parties wishing to contest upcoming local government elections
in Georgia’s mostly Armenian-populated Akhalkalaki region ended on
September 11.
Javakhk-Info news agency said the ruling National Movement and
Georgy-Topadze-Industrialists parties were registered in Akhalkalaki,
while in Ninotsminda, also populated by Armenians, only the ruling
party was registered.
The agency said all registered parties’ slates have only Armenian
names.