The opposition Yelk bloc  has accepted the results of municipal elections held in Yerevan on Sunday, May 14.

In a statement released today the bloc thanked all citizens, who provided financial, organizational, political and moral support.

“Yelk bloc has a strong and stable army of supporters in the capital and considers itself the delegate of about 70 thousand residents of Yerevan in the City Council and will speak on their behalf,” the statement reads.

The bloc pointed to a number of cases of vote-buying and pledged to take measures both in the National Assembly and the City Council to ‘ensure proper investigation of all  illegal phenomena’ observed during the parliamentary and municipal elections.