"Hraparak" writes:
Local government elections will be held in three communities of Vayots Dzor: Vayk, Yeghegnadzor and Jermuk on October 25. The candidate of the CP in Vayk is the incumbent community head Mkhitar Matevosyan, who from 1997 to 2012 was engaged in individual entrepreneurship, from 2012 to 2021 was the founding director of "Mavshin" LLC. Since 2021, he has been elected head of the Vayk enlarged community. The press wrote that the community head Mkhitar Matevosyan signed contracts worth about 500 million drams with a company belonging to his wife, Mary Margaryan. And the Investigative Committee's 2019 report The August 27 report states that the director of “Mavshin” LLC, who was Matevosyan at the time, was charged with committing a particularly large-scale embezzlement. In another community in Vayots Dzor, Yeghegnadzor, the communities will expand again, the communities of Areni and Yeghegis will join Yeghegnadzor.
Of the 3 communities, the CP nominated the candidacy of the head of the Areni community, Husik Sahakyan. His candidacy was personally presented to the public by the governor of Vayots Dzor, Vahagn Arsenyan. By the way, Husik Sahakyan is the community head who even moved the coffin of a dead person so that the Prime Minister’s visit would not be disrupted at the time he had planned. The ruling party probably also appreciated this step of Sahakyan and chose him as a candidate from the heads of the 3 communities. Husik Sahakyan, unlike Vayk community leader Mkhitar Matevosyan, has experience in leading a community. From 1996-2005, he was elected head of Rind three times in a row.
Re-elected in 2007, 2010 and 2014. Since 2017, he has been the head of the enlarged community of Areni. The people of Jermuk will also elect a community head this year. According to the information we have received, Vayots Dzor regional governor Vahagn Arsenyan is preparing to participate in the local government elections, the reason being that in the next one or two years, regional governors will be dissolved, and community heads are already seeing their own way. We asked Vahagn Arsenyan if he was preparing to nominate his candidacy in the local government elections. He said that there is no such decision at the moment. It should be noted that the opposition also has candidates in these 3 communities, but none of them has yet announced the names of the candidates so as not to target people prematurely.
By the way, the registration of candidates for the local government elections on October 25 began on September 10. We were told that the opposition candidates decided to register on the last day, September 20th.
