WILL ARMENIANS RESTORE MAJORITY IN THE GLENDALE CITY COUNCIL?
Armen Dilanyan
"Radiolur"
16.02.2009 13:51
Glendale
On many occasions the Glendale City Hall has been accused of taking
decisions contradicting the interests of Armenians.
Elections to the City Hall are scheduled for April 7, 2009, and this
is a good opportunity for Armenians to restore the majority of Armenian
members of the City Council and guarantee that wishes of the Armenians
citizens will be taken more account of at least during the coming
four years. However, recalling the results of the previous voting,
commentators do not rule out that even today’s two voices will be
lost because of the indifference of the Armenians on one hand, and
the seven candidates nominated on the other hand.
Taking into consideration that Armenians comprise more than half
of the city population, any restriction or any novelty suggested to
businessmen, will first of all affect Armenians.
The terms of the three out of the five members of the Glendale City
Council expire. Two of them, Bob Yousefian and Ara Najarian want to
be reelected on April 7.
The Armenian majority at the Glendale City Council will be guaranteed
if the 24 thousand enfranchised Armenian citizens of Glendale are
united.
Experience of the past years has shown that any candidate, who receives
10 thousand votes, gets elected. However, there has been no question
of that so far. Furthermore, it’s clear that in case of inactivity
of the electorate the votes cast for the seven Armenian candidates
will disperse and Armenians will, possibly, lose the two voices they
have at the City Council.