Noyan Tapan News Agency, Armenia
Oct 13 2006

NEWLY ELECTED DEPUTY OF AKHLTSKHA REGIONAL ASSEMBLY TURNS DOWN HIS
MANDATE

AKHALKALAK, OCTOBER 13, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. Yura
Melkonian, elected the deputy of the Akhalkalak Regional Assembly on
October 5 from the rural community of Tsghalkbila, turned down the
deputy’s mandate under pressure of the village population.

According to A-Info, Yura Melkonian won his rival Sergey Babajanian
only with privilege of 150 votes, falsifying about 300 votes:
cooperating with disctrict electoral commission members, he fixed in
his favour votes of people not living in Tsghaltbila.

To all probability, the Akhaltskha regional electoral commission will
soon give the mandate of the regional sakrebulo to Segey Babajanian.