COALITION FORCES TO RUN SEPARATELY IN THE ELECTIONS TO THE YEREVAN CITY COUNCIL
Lena Badeyan
"Radiolur"
27.02.2009 15:18
In about a fortnight the political parties will start applying for
participation in the elections of the Yerevan City Council scheduled
for May 31. During today’s briefings at the National Assembly,
the coalition forces finally declared they will be running in the
elections separately. No clarification on part lists was presented
today. They promised to publicize the lists and the candidates for
Yerevan Mayor next week.
>From today’s briefing it became clear, however, that the Prosperous
Armenia Party will not nominate its leader Gagik Tsarukyan. First,
he does not want to be the Mayor of Yerevan. Secondly, he does not
meet the requirement of law, which says the candidate should have
been registered in Yerevan at least for three years.
Statements in today’s press said the opposition has decided to nominate
Stepan Demirchyan, leader of the People’s Party of Armenia. Regarding
the statement, head of the Heritage faction Armen Martirosyan said:
"At this point there is no ground to insist that we will be running
separately.
On the contrary, negotiations are underway on running in the elections
with a united candidate. Thus, together we will be able to achieve
our objectives, which are the same for both the Armenian National
Congress and the Heritage, more effectively=2 0due to joint effort.
As for the Republicans, head of the Republican Party faction Galust
Sahakyan said they are considering several candidacies. However, he
mentioned the names of incumbent Mayor Yervand Zakharayan and head
of the Kentron community Gagik Beglaryan.