YEREVAN ELECTIONS IN LINE WITH EUROPEAN STANDARDS: OBSERVERS

/ARKA/
June 1, 2009
YEREVAN

The Yerevan city Council elections were in line with European
standards, said Nigel Mermagen, head of the monitoring group from
the CE Congress of Local and Regional Authorities.

He said the CE observers hailed the transparent polls on Sunday.

According to the preliminary results, the Republican Party of Armenia
received 190,171 votes (47.39%) followed by coalition Prospering Party
of Armenia with 91,141 votes (22.71%) and the oppositional Armenian
National Congress that obtained 69,871 votes (17.41%).

The votes received by the remaining parties were below the 7% level
and are not to be considered for the seats in the City Council.

Orinats Yerkir party received 20,959 votes (5.22%), Armenian
Revolutionary Federation Dashnaktsutiun – 18,648 votes (4.65%),
People’s Party – 8,569 votes (2.14%), People’s Socialistic Party of
Armenia – 1,951 votes (0.49%).

Out of 771,477 electors 412,464 participated in the vote. The Yerevan
City Council elections were scheduled for May 31.