29.36% turnout recorded in elections to Yerevan city council by 14:00
local time
YEREVAN, May 31. /ARKA/. Karen Poladyan, member of Armenian Central
Election Commission, said 29.36% turnout was recorded in elections to
Yerevan city council by 14:00 local time.
`Yerevan has 771,477 people eligible to vote. Of them, 226,487 have
come to polling stations as of 14:00 local time’, he said.
Elections to the city council are being held in Yerevan for the first
time. The council will consist of 65 members.
The first number in the list of the party than wins the majority of
seats in the council will automatically take up the mayor post.
Six political parties and one bloc will run in the elections.
Three of them ` Republican Party of Armenia, Prosperous Armenia and
Orinats Yerkir ` are members of the ruling coalition.
Other competitors are Armenian revolutionary federation Dasgnaktsutiun,
People’s Party, Labor Socialist Party of Armenia and Armenian National
Congress opposition bloc.
Now Republican Gagic Beglaryan is the mayor of Yerevan.-0—