YEREVAN. –  The Armenian Deputy PM and Minister of Territorial Administration Armen Gevorgyan received on Friday the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe monitoring delegation headed by Henry Feral. The delegation arrived in Armenia to monitor local self-governmental elections, which are scheduled for Sept. 9 and 23. 

To note, number of the female candidates running for the local elections has increased twice.

The Deputy PM has also stated that the preparation stage of the elections was successful.