In the mayor elections of Dilijan on September 23rd a previous policeman, now an advocate Gurgen Harutyunyan will run his candidacy. Though the deadline of running candidacies is August 24th, it is already known that the only rival of ARP candidate, the incumbent mayor of Dilijan Armen Santrosyan, is Gurgen Harutyunyan.
In the interview with “1in.am News and Analysis” Dilijan mayor candidate Gurgen Harutyunyan said that though there are lots of investments in Dilijan, the town loses its face and the architectural look must be preserved. In answer to the question what problems he will primarily solve, he said: “I will try to fight corruption and solve several social problems that Dilijan citizen faces.”
To the question whether he hopes that there will be no violations in the elections, he said that they are not excluded, especially double voting which is very difficult to fight, the corruption is not excluded either.
Compared with the incumbent mayor’s words that there is almost no emigration from the town and almost no unemployment, Gurgen Harutyunyan said that his friends and relatives are abroad working, and there are several cases of emigrating but it’s not the fault of the mayor, it’s the state of our country.
According to his words a person can be fired from work for just smoking, which points at the atmosphere of awe in the town. Because when there are levers of authorities, there is awe. Our town is isolated from the world; there are no local mass media. Briefly to say, Dilijan citizen has become a servant for foreigners. All the administrative staff is from Yerevan, It’s not right.
