BY PRELIMINARY RESULTS, MEMBER OF "PROSPEROUS ARMENIA" PARTY HAKOB BALASIAN WINS ELECTIONS OF BYUREGHAVAN MAYOR

Noyan Tapan

Au g 19, 2008

YEREVAN, AUGUST 19, NOYAN TAPAN. By preliminary results of the August
17 early elections of the head of the Byureghavan city community
(Kotayk marz), Hakob Balasian – chief of the staff of Kotayk regional
administration, member of "Prosperous Armenia" party, has won the
elections: 2,078 electors voted for him. NT correspondent was informed
by spokesperson for the RA Central Electoral Commission Tatev Ohanian
that H. Balasian’s rivals: non-party man, head of a unit of World
Vision International organization Nver Stepanian and non-party man,
unemployed Valery Grigorian received 659 and 632 votes respectively.

3,462 out of the 7,406 voters in Byureghavan participated in the
voting. 96 voting papers were recognized as invalid. The number of
inaccuracies made 7.