RPA AND ANM NOMINATE TWO CANDIDATES EACH FOR SEPTEMBER 28 ELECTION OF YEREVAN’S KENTRON COMMUNITY HEAD

Noyan Tapan

Se p 3, 2008

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 3, NOYAN TAPAN. 4 candidates: the current head of
Yerevan’s Kentron district, member of the Republican Party of Armenia
(RPA) Gagik Beglarian and his deputy, RPA member Gagik Gyanjumian,
as well as former mayor of Yerevan, chairman of the board of the
Armenian National Movement party (ANM) Ararat Zurabian and ANM
member Davit Arakelian have been nominated to run in the September
28 election of the head of Kentron community. The deadline for
candidate nomination was September 3rd, 6 pm. 40 candidates have
been nominated for 15 seats of the council of aldermen in Kentron
community. 11 candidates have been nominated for 11-seat council of
aldermen in Nork-Marash community, NT correspondent was informed by
Silva Markosian, chairwoman of district electoral commission No 10
responsible for organization of elections to local self-government
bodies in the two indicated communities. The deadlibe for candidate
registration is September 8th, 6 pm.

To recap, A. Zurabian is an accused person in the criminal case opened
in connection with the March 1-2 events in Yerevan. Recently his
precautionary measure – arrest was replaced by a written undertaking
not to leave Armenia due to A. Zurabian’s poor health. Under the same
criminal case, D. Arakelian was given 18 month suspended sentence
for committing violence (not dangerous to life) against policemen.