PRO-GOVERNMENTAL CANDIDATE FROM ELECTORAL DISTRICT 10 WINS ADDITIONAL ELECTIONS TO THE PARLIAMENT

ArmInfo
2010-01-11 11:27:00

ArmInfo. Pro-governmental candidate from the electoral district 10
(National Accord Party), Ara Simonyan, won the additional elections
to the parliament by 7622 votes. The opposition candidate, Nikol
Pahsinyan, the editor of Haykakan Zhamanak Daily, who is currently
under arrest, received 5023 votes. Pashinyan is charged with
organization of the mass disorders in Yerevan on March 1- 2 2008.

Turnout totaled 13380. The third candidate, the leader of the Marxist
Party of Armenia, David Hakobyan, received 299 votes.

The deputy mandate of the above election district proved vacant after
the former parliamentarian Khachatur Sukiasyan was deprived of his
mandate for complicity in the incidents of March 2008 in Yerevan.