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Taron Margaryan assumes office as Acting Mayor
Under the RA Law on Local Government (Article 48, parts 2), Vice-Mayor of Yerevan Taron Margaryan will act as Yerevan Mayor until the election of a new mayor.
Pre-term mayoral elections are to be held in the capital within a month.
Yerevan Mayor Karen Karapetyan tendered his resignation on October 28, aming political reasons behind the move.
According to media reports, Karapetyan is going to take a leading managerial position at Gazprom Company in Moscow.
