Gyumri incumbent mayor Samvel Balasanyan was today reelected in a closed door vote of the new municipal council's inaugural session in which 16 members never attended..
“Every time a gas tank blows, we think it’s as a bomb. The situation? It’s really bad there,” says Arpi, who then remains silent.
The other two Armenians who will sit in the Georgian parliament, representing Samtskhe-Javakheti, are Ruslan Poghosyan and Samvel Manukyan. Respectively, they were 19th and 23rd on the Georgian Dream proportional ballot.