Echmiadzin mayor remains in office despite election criminal scandal
19.09.2016,
12:41
YEREVAN, September 19. /ARKA/. The Armenian Central Election Commission has pronounced Karen Grigoryan, Echmiadzin mayor, the winner in the mayoral election.
According to the preliminary report the commission has posted on its website, Grigoryan has been reelected by 10,587 votes cast for him.
His key rival, Arthur Tumanyan, has scored 3,651 votes and the third candidate, Arthur Khachatryan only 504.
Election campaigns have been very tense. According to media reports, a car of Karen Grigoryan, the son of Manvel Grigoryan, former deputy defense minister, was shot up on September 16, and his rival Arthur Tumanyan was beaten severely and he is now in hospital.
Later, the Armenian Investigation Committee reported about one man detained over an armed incident on Yerevan-Echmiadzin motor road.
The searches carried out in the incident participants’ homes revealed armament in the home of one of them. The man was arrested on September 18.
All the cars involved in the incident were examined carefully, but no gunshot traces were found. -0--
YEREVAN, September 19. /ARKA/. The Armenian Central Election Commission has pronounced Karen Grigoryan, Echmiadzin mayor, the winner in the mayoral election.
According to the preliminary report the commission has posted on its website, Grigoryan has been reelected by 10,587 votes cast for him.
His key rival, Arthur Tumanyan, has scored 3,651 votes and the third candidate, Arthur Khachatryan only 504.
Election campaigns have been very tense. According to media reports, a car of Karen Grigoryan, the son of Manvel Grigoryan, former deputy defense minister, was shot up on September 16, and his rival Arthur Tumanyan was beaten severely and he is now in hospital.
Later, the Armenian Investigation Committee reported about one man detained over an armed incident on Yerevan-Echmiadzin motor road.
The searches carried out in the incident participants’ homes revealed armament in the home of one of them. The man was arrested on September 18.
All the cars involved in the incident were examined carefully, but no gunshot traces were found. -0--
According to the preliminary report the commission has posted on its website, Grigoryan has been reelected by 10,587 votes cast for him.
His key rival, Arthur Tumanyan, has scored 3,651 votes and the third candidate, Arthur Khachatryan only 504.
Election campaigns have been very tense. According to media reports, a car of Karen Grigoryan, the son of Manvel Grigoryan, former deputy defense minister, was shot up on September 16, and his rival Arthur Tumanyan was beaten severely and he is now in hospital.
Later, the Armenian Investigation Committee reported about one man detained over an armed incident on Yerevan-Echmiadzin motor road.
The searches carried out in the incident participants’ homes revealed armament in the home of one of them. The man was arrested on September 18.
All the cars involved in the incident were examined carefully, but no gunshot traces were found. -0--
