The RPA faction of the Yerevan Council of Elders will not nominate a candidate for Yerevan mayoral elections to be held on July 16 and will not attend the corresponding sitting of Yerevan Council of Elders. As Armenpress reports, this is stated in the faction’s Facebook page
“Taking into consideration the new reality created in the country, the Yerevan Council of Aldermen’s Republican Party faction will not nominate a candidate for Yerevan mayoral elections to be held July 16 and will not take part in the corresponding sitting of the Yerevan Council of Elders.
We are deeply convinced that in order to ensure the further normal and continuous development of Yerevan, the new mayor and elders must elect the residents of the capital, “the statement of the faction reads.
On July 14, the Council of Elders of the Council of Elders also announced that he would not attend the July 16 session of the Council.