07/05/2015 12:51
RPA to back Tsarukyan’s candidate in Abovyan mayoral elections
At a meeting on Wednesday, the Kotayk regional headquarters of Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) made a decision to back Gagik Tsarukyan’s candidate, Vahagn Gevorgyan, in the mayoral elections in Abovyan city, Kotayk region, Haykakan Zhamanak has learnt.
The Republican Party preferred Tsarukyan’s candidate to its representative, Arthur Harutyunyan, nicknamed Palach, whom it successfully used against Tsarukyan before the February events, the newspaper says.
RPA spokesman Eduard Sharmazanov told reporters last week that they leave it to the Kotayk regional headquarters to decide whom to back in the elections.