Today, during the government session, Minister of Economic and Technological Development, Davit Khudatyan mentioned that it is proposed to terminate the powers of the Gyumri Council of Elders of Shirak Marz early and call for extraordinary elections of the Council of Elders.
The TKE minister did not rule out that the primaries model can be applied in Parakar as well.
"Yes, the primaries in Gyumri were successful, and the "Civil Contract" party considers that model to be applicable in a large part of the communities," Khudatyan said. Nikol Pashinyan also reminded of the situation in Gyumri.
"All the members of the council gave up their mandates, the mayor, the deputies all resigned, and there is no other way out of this situation than going to extraordinary elections." Or if there is, it is theoretically not acceptable, because we believe that the people of Gyumri should have the opportunity to elect their council of elders.
We only provide the legal procedures." The Prime Minister mentioned that for the first time in Gyumri, a preliminary vote was held, which is known by the name of primaries in international terminology. "The first attempt was important and successful.
There is an understanding in the ruling party that in the future, in all cases where we do not have a functioning community leader, we will elect our candidate through this mechanism, which is another important democratic institution that we are introducing in RA.
These sets of laws also create an opportunity to appoint the acting mayor of Gyumri by the prime minister.
Tomorrow, I will make that appointment based on the results of that preliminary vote."
