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VAZGEN SARGSYAN’S UNCLE IS ARARAT VILLAGE HEAD

Politics

Elections for local government institutions took place in the homeland of murdered PM Vazgen Sargsyan, Ararat village, too. Yesterday Stepan Vardanyan, the candidate for the village head post informed that elections have never taken place in Ararat in the days of independent Armenia .
The other candidate for village head, i.e., both present village head and Vazgen Sargsyan’s uncle Grigor Melkonyan says he hasn’t had any rival at the 2 previous elections for local government institutions . Ararat villagers say they were given a chance to vote for the first time yesterday.

The villagers stressed importance of the fact 3 proposed candidates are relatives. Stepan Vardanyan is the son of Grigor Melkonyan’s father-in-law. The third candidate – Aramayis Grigoryan, is a distant relative to them both. It was not clear for the present village head why the son of his father-in-law had put up his candidature against him.

Petros Jamalyan, Chair of N 25/13 polling district stated numbers of irregularities regarding election lists, were committed in his district . Voter Varditer Vardanyan had gone to election centre with a passport of independent Armenia and found out she was not included in the list. She has to pass 15 kilometres on foot and to get First Instance Court of Vedi to prove she is alive and intends to vote.

Armen Sargsyan, Vazgen Sargsyan’s brother, was one of Grigor Melkonyan’s proxies in 25/13 polling district. He says he is a respected and well-known person in the village. Under the proxy status he did his best to prevent any extreme incident . He could be seen in all the parts of election centre during election process. Armen Sargsyan received voters and consulted them on voting order. Majority of voters was not aware of it. That’s why in one of polling districts number of invalid votes (187) was more than those got by the third candidate (151). After summing up it became clear Grigor Melkonyan, Vazgen Sargsyan’s uncle was elected as Ararat village head by 970 votes .