RUBEN HOVSEPIAN ELECTED PREFECT OF YEREVAN DISTRICT
Armenpress
Oct 30 2006
YEREVAN, OCTOBER 30, ARMENPRESS: According to preliminary returns
of October 29 mayoral election in Yerevan Achapnyak district,
a non-partisan Ruben Hovsepian, was elected prefect. He received
13,930 votes out of 18,935 ballots.
Iskhan Arshakian from the People’s Path party received 935 votes
and Gagik Sarkisian from the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF)
received 2,146 votes. The voter turnout was 25 percent.
A spokeswoman for Armenian Central Election Commission (CEC) said
654 ballots were invalidated.
Ruben Hovsepian is the brother of Armenia’s prosecutor general Aghvan
Hovsepian.