RACE FOR POST OF MAYOR WILL BE TOUGH
Karabakh Open
Oct 8 2007
On October 14 elections of mayor will be held in Stepanakert,
Martakert, Martuni, Karvachar and Berdzor.
We have learned from the NKR CEC the aspirants to the post of mayor
of Stepanakert are 3: Ara Ghahramanyan, Albert Ghazaryan, Vazgen
Mikaelyan. Albert Ghazaryan is a member of the Christian Democratic
Party. The other two are non-partisan.
Earlier we had informed that the CEC had not accepted Albert
Ghazaryan’s documents, who submitted them on the last day of nomination
and did not manage to submit one of the documents. It became known
that the court’s decision was in favor of Albert Ghazaryan, and the
CEC registered him in accordance with the court decision.
The candidates to mayor of Martakert Sergey Harutiunyan, Mher
Mangasaryan and Vagif Mirzoyan, and the candidates of mayor of
Martunity Artem Avanesyan, Grisha Azizyan, Mher Arustamyan and Nelson
Musayelyan are also non-partisan. Two are running for the post of
mayor of Berdzor, Arthur Sahakyan, non-partisan, and Tigran Mejlumyan,
Azat Hayrenik Party. Artem Khachatryan and Jora Grigoryan running
for the post of mayor of Karvachar are also non-partisan.
We have learned from the CEC that of 236 candidates of heads of
communities three withdrew in Martakert and Kashatagh, and of the
1471 candidates for the local council 13 withdrew.