During Gyumri mayor elections on September 9th the “Heritage” party will support the candidate for the post of mayor, ARF member, the deputy of the director of financial department of Shirak regional hall, Hovsep Simonyan. This was reported to “1in.am News and Analysis” by the party representative of the region, Vahagn Hovhannisyan.
“We have initially said that in case of not nominating our own candidate, we will support one of the opposition candidates.” – mentioned Vahagn Hovhannisyan. To our question whether the party has discussed the question of supporting PAP candidate Samvel Balasanyan, Vahagn Hovhannisyan answered: “PAP has never been an opposition for us, so we didn’t even discuss it.”
Whether they believe that Hovsep Simonyan will win the elections or not, to this question Hovhannisyan answered: “We find that he has good chances, and as for the question of Hovsep Simonyan being not so famous, we will fix it later on.”- said Vahagn Hovhannisyan.
Paylak Fahradyan, the correspondent of “1in.am News and Analysis” in Shirak