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Armenia local elections: Ruling party loses by more than 13.5% in Vanadzor

News.am, Armenia
Dec 6 2021
09:23, 06.12.2021

The Mamikon Aslanyan opposition bloc, led by the former mayor, has won convincingly after processing the voting results of all polling stations in Sunday’s Council of Elders elections in Vanadzor, the third-largest city of Armenia

Accordingly, 38.71% of Vanadzor voters have cast their ballots in favor of the aforementioned bloc. The ruling Civil Contract Party received only 25.06%. And little-known Labor Socialist Party of Armenia registered an unexpectedly high result; it garnered 14.53% of the votes. But the fact is that the electoral list of this party was headed by not unknown Arkadi Peleshyan, who was once the deputy mayor of Vanadzor.

In fourth place is former National Security Service chief Artur Vanetsyan's opposition Homeland Party, which received 4.48%. It is followed by the Country to Live party, with 4.29% of the votes.

The other five political forces running in these elections, however, did not pass the 4% threshold to win seats in the Vanadzor Council of Elders.

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS