Two parties filed registration papers
The Bargavach Hayastan Party (BHK) and People's Party (ZhK) today filed registration papers with the RoA Central Election Commission (CEC) for the May 31 election to Yerevan's municipal council.
The BHK's ticket is comprised of 122 candidates topped by Harutyun Kushkyan, Minister of Healthcare. Mkhitar Mnastsakanyan, Chairman of the NA ad hoc Committee on Protection of Human Rights and Public Affairs, is the second on the list followed by Margarita Matevosyan, professor at Yerevan State University.
The ticket of the People's Party includes 20 candidates and is headed by ZhK Leader Tigran Karapetyan, followed by Artak Harutyunyan, Chairman of the party's political board, and Harchik Vardapetyan, Dean of the Biological Faculty of Armenian-Russian (Slavonic) University, reports the CEC press service.