ARFD MEMBER NOMINATED FOR NA DEPUTY BY-ELECTIONS AT YEREVAN ELECTORAL DISTRICT N 10 WITHDRAWS HIS CANDIDATURE
Noyan Tapan
Nov 4, 2009
YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 4, NOYAN TAPAN. ARFD member, unemployed Rafael
Ayvazian nominated for the 2010 January 10 NA deputy by-elections at
Yerevan electoral district N 10 by majority system by self-nomination
order withdrew his candidature on November 3. Noyan Tapan correspondent
was informed about it by district electoral commission chairwoman
Silva Markosian.
Thus, six nominated candidates remained at the above mentioned
electoral district: non-partisans, Haykakan Zhamanak newspaper’s
editor-in-chief Nikol Pashinian accused of organization of the 2008
March events, former NA deputy, Chairman of the Union of Political
Scientists Hmayak Hovhannisian, former NA deputy and former RA
Minister of Transport and Communication Eduard Madatian, Zhamants LTD’s
Director Vladimir Kostanian nominated by the self-nomination order,
ARFD member, head of the National Unity Party legal department, NUP
member Ara Simonian and leader of the Marxist Party David Hakobian
nominated by their party decisions.
The deadline of introducing registration documents to the district
electoral commission is November 26. Candidates’ registration will
be done from December 1 up to December 6.
To recap, the deputy powers of Khachatur Sukiasian elected in the
2007 parliamentary elections from electoral district N 10 were stopped
ahead of the schedule according to the application on resignation.