CANDIDATE WITHDRAWS FROM RACE

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[01:21 pm] 06 October, 2008

Republican Jora Sahabalian, ex mayor of Dilijan Town, head of the
Tavush State Department of Environmental Protection, withdrew from
the Mayor’s race on October 1, informed Chairman of Precinct 41
(seat in Ijevan) Smbat Gasparian.

Presently, two candidates run for the post – incumbent Mayor Armen
Santrosyan, head of the regional structure of the Republican Party
of Armenia (HHK), and non-partisan Ashot Hovhanisyan, Chairman of
"Dialnet" Company.

Local residents think that after Sahabalian’s withdrawal Santrosyan
has more chances to be relected to the post.