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My Step Alliance Breezes to Victory in Yerevan Municipal Council Election

The Im Kayl (My Step) Alliance scored a crushing victory in yesterday’s Yerevan Municipal Council election, garnering 81.06 % of the vote, according to preliminary results from all 475 precincts.

As a result, Hayk Muratyan, a well-known TV actor and producer that headed the Alliance’s ticket, is set to become Yerevan’s next mayor.

The My Step Alliance includes Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s Civil Contract party.

Coming in a distant second, at 6.95 % in the field of twelve political parties/blocs that ran candidates in the election was Gagik Tsarukyan’s Prosperous Party of Armenia.

The Luys Alliance came in third, winning 4.99 %.

According to the Article 141 of the Armenian Electoral Code, the Council should have representatives at least from three political parties/blocs getting most of the votes, so the mandates will be distributed between the three mentioned above.

Results for the rest of the field are as follows:

ARF: 1.62 %

Yerkir Tsirani Party: 1.39 %

Rule of Law Party: 1.09 %

Yerevantsiner Alliance: 0.82 %

Heritage Party: 0.75 %

Yerevan Society Alliance: 0.69 %

People’s Path Party: 0.22 %

Reformists’ Party: 0.22 %

Hayk (Haykazunner) Party: 0.19 %

Comments (5)

Ashot
What we've received is again one-party rule. How is this an improvement over Serzh Sargsyan's decades-long Republican party monopoly?
Bedros
I'm amazed about all this talk of free and fair elections in Armenia. What exactly happened overnight to stop people from accepting election bribes and rigging the vote? Why have people become so law abiding all of a sudden? Is it a sense of shame for being so servile and despondent for so many years? This is a very complex psychological conundrum.
NickyP
Down with one party rule! We want free and fair Taron back! Ashot is right, this is exactly like stalinist rule, we cannot tolerate this at all. If things continue like this, people will stop leaving armenia as their hope grows of a fair future in their own land, this is absolutely intolerable. Bring back hhk. Anyone with me? The people are too stupid to realise what they are doing! All 80 odd % of them. On a serious note, Bedros, i think the dramatic change comes from the fact that the police force is no longer used by the state apparatus to uphold vote fixing, and people genuinely fear being arrested and fined. I dont think we have got to the cultural psychological change where people realise its not correct to sell 5 years of your life for 20 $ yet, unfortunately. Hopefully we will see some charges being acted upon, and being made an example of, so that in the general elections for parliament, again the elections will be free and fair. There is always room for improvement of course.
Ashot
Anush, it doesn't matter whether the winner represents a party or coalition. What matters is the fact that 81% of voters chose an unqualified, partisan, goofy mayor-elect who also resides in the Czech Republic. What kind of fair campaign was this, dominated by PM Pashinyan's PR? A joke.
Anush
Dear Ashot, It's not one party. It's an alliance that includes many non-partisan people, who are really devoted to their city and its development.

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