Voters in Yerevan went to the polls on Sunday to elect a new municipal council that will appoint the Armenian capital’s mayor.
Zaruhi Postanjian, one of the two opposition candidates in the upcoming mayoral elections in Yerevan, on Friday urged voters to help her end Republican Party (HHK) rule in Armenia which she denounced as a “dictatorship.”
Ara Abrahamian, a businessman leading Russia’s largest Armenian Diaspora organization, admitted on Tuesday that he did not expect the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) to comfortably win last month’s parliamentary elections.
Campaigning officially began on Friday for next month’s municipal elections in Yerevan which will pit the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) against two opposition groups led by relatively young politicians.
An Armenian law-enforcement body launched on Wednesday a criminal investigation into a secretly recorded audio suggesting that employees of a pro-government businessman were told to help him get reelected to parliament or lose their jobs.
Citing a lack of time and funds, Armenia’s leading vote-monitoring organization said on Tuesday that it is unlikely to deploy many observers during next month’s mayoral elections in Yerevan.
Former President Levon Ter-Petrosian’s opposition alliance on Friday appealed to Armenia’s Constitutional Court to annul the official results of the April 2 parliamentary elections because of what it called serious irregularities.
Georgia’s Foreign Minister Mikheil Janelidze welcomed a new agreement on deepening Armenia’s relations with the European Union during an official visit to Yerevan on Tuesday.
Former President Levon Ter-Petrosian’s opposition alliance said on Friday that it will ask Armenia’s Constitutional Court to annul the official results of the April 2 parliamentary elections because of what it called widespread vote buying and other “systematic” irregularities.
A coalition of Armenian civil society organizations claimed on Wednesday to have obtained evidence that at least several hundred ballots were cast in place of citizens who did not vote in the April 2 parliamentary elections.
The opposition Yelk alliance, which finished third in the Armenian parliamentary elections, accused the authorities of large-scale vote buying but essentially accepted the official vote results on Tuesday.
Nikol Pashinian, one of the leaders of the opposition Yelk alliance, insisted on Thursday that it will make a strong showing in Sunday’s Armenian parliamentary elections.
An Armenian civic organization on Friday claimed to have collected evidence that public school principals across Armenia are illegally pressurizing their staffs and students’ parents to vote for the ruling Republican Party (HHK) in the upcoming elections.
The ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) on Tuesday denied responsibility for a series of violent attacks widely attributed to the ongoing parliamentary election campaign.
The opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) accused the authorities on Thursday of doing nothing to stop what it called widespread vote bribes handed out by pro-government candidates in the upcoming parliamentary elections.
Campaigning for Armenia’s upcoming parliamentary elections officially began at the weekend, with President Serzh Sarkisian expressing confidence that his Republican Party (HHK) will win them and remain in power.
Train-ferry service between Russian and Georgian Black Sea ports is becoming a more attractive route for Russian-Armenian trade, Armenia’s government and Russian-managed rail network insisted on Thursday.
A pro-government lawmaker acknowledged on Thursday that some candidates of the governing Republican Party (HHK) provide material assistance to voters in the run-up to Armenia’s parliamentary elections.
A senior Armenian government official strongly denied on Wednesday a newspaper claim that his wife running a state kindergarten in Yerevan is illegally campaigning for his victory in the April 2 parliamentary elections.
Contrary to Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko’s claims, Interpol has reportedly said that it did not issue an international arrest warrant for a Russian-Israeli blogger who was controversially extradited to Azerbaijan this week.
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