Dashnak candidate wins his BHK contender
Artashes Safaryan, a member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) beat his contender from the Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) Zakar Zakaryan in Sunday's election in Verin Bazmaberd community in Aragatsotni marz (province).
Safaryan and Zakaryan garnered 128 and 119 votes respectively, the Central Election Commission reports.
Overall, 248 of the 332 eligible voters cast their ballots in the election. One ballot was declared invalid.
The powers of former village head Hunan Arakelyan were prematurely terminated by a January 31 decision of the Armenian Government after Arakelyan handed over his resignation due to health problems.
to conduct snap elections in the community, the government had allocated to the CEC AMD 614 835 from its reserve funds and AMD 131 000 to the police.
