Taron Margaryan elected new mayor of Yerevan
15.11.2011,
23:22
Forty-nine members of the Council of Elders (legislative assembly) of the Armenian capital unanimously elected today Taron Margaryan as new mayor of Yerevan, Novosti-Armenia news agency reported.
YEREVAN, November 15. /ARKA/. Forty-nine members of the Council of Elders (legislative assembly) of the Armenian capital unanimously elected today Taron Margaryan as new mayor of Yerevan, Novosti-Armenia news agency reported. Taron Margaryan is the son of former Prime Minister Andranik Margaryan, who died in 2007.
Taron Margaryan had been nominated for the vacant post by the governing board of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia on October 31. Prior to his election, he served as vice mayor. The former mayor of Yerevan, Karen Karapetyan, resigned October 28 at his own will to take up another job.
The ruling Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) controls 63 seats in the 131-seat parliament. The party’s chairman is President Serzh Sargsyan. The Republican Party has the majority in the Council of Elders - 35 seats. The other 17 seats are controlled by the junior coalition member Prosperous Armenia party.
Taron Margaryan was born on April 17, 1978 in Yerevan. In 1995 he graduated from school and was enrolled into the Armenian Agricultural Academy. In 2001 he graduated from it with Master’s degree.
In 2001-2003 he worked as a senior specialist, then chief of the regional subdivision of the State Committee of Cadastre in Yerevan’s Nor Nork administrative district.
In 2003 he was appointed deputy head of a department in the ministry of Nature Protection in charge of bio resources. In 2005 he was elected, and in 2008 re-elected as head of Yerevan's Avan district. Since 2009 he has served as deputy mayor.
Margaryan has been a member of the Republican Party since 1996. In 2006 he was elected to its Board.
He was awarded Anania Shirakatsi, Garegin Nzhdeh medals, as well as Gold Medal of Yerevan mayor, Gold Medal of the Armenian Agrarian University, Fridtjof Nansen Gold Medal and Eagles of Armenian Mountains Medal and Sparapet Vazgen Sargsyan Order. Margaryan is married and has one son and one daughter. -0-
Taron Margaryan had been nominated for the vacant post by the governing board of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia on October 31. Prior to his election, he served as vice mayor. The former mayor of Yerevan, Karen Karapetyan, resigned October 28 at his own will to take up another job.
The ruling Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) controls 63 seats in the 131-seat parliament. The party’s chairman is President Serzh Sargsyan. The Republican Party has the majority in the Council of Elders - 35 seats. The other 17 seats are controlled by the junior coalition member Prosperous Armenia party.
Taron Margaryan was born on April 17, 1978 in Yerevan. In 1995 he graduated from school and was enrolled into the Armenian Agricultural Academy. In 2001 he graduated from it with Master’s degree.
In 2001-2003 he worked as a senior specialist, then chief of the regional subdivision of the State Committee of Cadastre in Yerevan’s Nor Nork administrative district.
In 2003 he was appointed deputy head of a department in the ministry of Nature Protection in charge of bio resources. In 2005 he was elected, and in 2008 re-elected as head of Yerevan's Avan district. Since 2009 he has served as deputy mayor.
Margaryan has been a member of the Republican Party since 1996. In 2006 he was elected to its Board.
He was awarded Anania Shirakatsi, Garegin Nzhdeh medals, as well as Gold Medal of Yerevan mayor, Gold Medal of the Armenian Agrarian University, Fridtjof Nansen Gold Medal and Eagles of Armenian Mountains Medal and Sparapet Vazgen Sargsyan Order. Margaryan is married and has one son and one daughter. -0-
