The campaign headquarters of mayor candidate of Vanadzor region Samvel Darbinyan issued a statement, which says that some episodes of the upcoming electoral process of Vanadzor Mayor and City Council members on September 9, found wide response in the Armenian media.
There is information, that the city council and mayoral candidates’ campaign posters were split. Another incident was registered, which is not appropriate in a civilized campaign.
At the campaign such unacceptable mechanisms were also used towards mayor candidate Samvel Darbinyan, prevention of which headquarters of mayoral candidate did independently, without applying law enforcement. Unfortunately, some people’s obsession to do even minor harm to opponents hinders fair competition and universal norms of political struggle.
Campaign headquarters of Samvel Darbinyan calls for mayor and council candidates to refrain from provocations and return to the fair rules of political propaganda.