They were handing out election bribes near the 12/37 polling station. The local representative of the ruling Republican Party was more than eager to show us a list of signatures. An elderly woman walked up to the Hetq reporter outside the 12/37 polling station in Nerkin Kharberd and said that some guys with lists in their hands were handing out bribes up the road. As it turned out when we got there, after casting their ballots, voters would show...
Naser Kelmendi, the notorious Balkan drug kingpin, has been arrested by authorities in Kosovo. Kosovo Police spokesman Baki Kelani told the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIN) that Kelmendi was arrested in the evening hours on May 5.
Theater and film director Ashot Adamyan told Hetq that residents of Yerevan participated in a rigged election on May 5 and that they really had no say in the make-up of the next Council of Aldermen.
At the time, Virabyan was a member of the People’s Party of Armenia and actively participated in public rallies and political campaigning for the 2004 presidential election in Armenia.
The ruling Republican Party of Armenia secured 58 percent of the vote and thus will determine the next mayor of Yerevan, who’s most definitely incumbent Taron Markarian. Prosperous Armenia Party and the Barev Yerevan movement garnered 20 percent and 8.7 percent, respectively. Voter turnout was 53.5 percent. All other opposition parties/ blocks were shut out.
I had returned from Karabakh the day before, and hadn’t yet got my head on straight, before finding myself on the “attractive” election stage in Yerevan.
Here are the preliminary results for yesterday’s Council of Alderman election in Yerevan according to the Central Electoral Commission
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