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When will the purchase of 100 buses be done by the municipality? - David Khajakyan (video)

At today's regular session of the Yerevan Council of Elders, the mandate of Henrik Hartenyan, the former member of the Council of Elders elected by the alliance list of ''My Step'' party, transferred to the next number of that list- Pavel Sargsyan.

To remind, Henrik Hartenyan layed down his mandate because of posting and making a note to the photo of  a daughter of Constitutional Court Chairman Hrayr Tovmasyan on his social network page.

The mayor also informed that Arusyak Harutyunyan, a member of the Council of Elders elected on the "My Step" bloc list, had resigned from the mandate of the council. She would be replaced by Hripsime Hunanyan, who is the next according to the list.

Later they passed to the agenda and the Deputy Mayor Hayk Sargsyan presented the report of the Yerevan Development Plan for 2019 to the members of the Council of Elders.

David Khajakyan, head of ''Luys'' faction, reminded that at one of the previous council meetings it was announced that about 100 buses had been planned to be purchased about which had to be announced by the end of February. He noted that the purchase was not announced and wondered about the further actions of the municipality concerning this question.

The mayor Hayk Marutyan responded that there had to be the announcement of competition which unfortunately did not take place because of some technical problems, but assured that the competition would be announced till the end of the next week.

Later the mayor added that the specialists who had to join in the final stage of the process were not able to come because of coronavirus.

To remind, Hayk Marutyan announced during the session of the Council of Elders taken place on February 10, that they were going to announce a 100 bus competition exactly in February and they had hopes that the buses would be in Yerevan in the fall.