By Hermineh Virabyan

More than twenty police have descended on the Aragatzotn village of Tzaghkahovit, where one of the four candidates running for mayor is Arayik Khantoyan, a member of the Sasna Dzrer group that seized a Yerevan police building in July.

Khantoyan, a village resident, is now in jail awaiting trial for the armed takeover.

When this reporter asked the police why they had arrived, they advised me to ask the public affairs division of the police.

The police at first said they would look into the report and soon afterwards claimed that “all was in order” and that voting was proceeding normally.

The official I talked to said a beefed-up police presence had been ordered, but that nothing out of the ordinary was taking place in Tzaghkahovit