City council election over in Yerevan

YEREVAN, May 31. /ARKA/. City council election is already completed in
Yerevan.

All the 439 polling stations of the city closed at 20:00 local time.

Elections to the city council are being held in Yerevan for the first
time. The council will consist of 65 members.

The council seats will be filled through party lists.

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 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 Dashnaktsutiun,
People’s Party, Labor Socialist Party of Armenia and Armenian National
Congress opposition bloc.

Tatev Ohanyan, press secretary of Armenian Central Electoral
Commission, said the preliminary results of the election will be
announced within 24 hours.

She said that the Central Electoral Commission is going to make a
statement tomorrow morning.

The commission said 41.66% turnout was recorded by 18:00 local time.

Yerevan has 771,477 residents eligible to vote. -0′