YEREVAN. – The campaigning for the forthcoming Armenian capital city Yerevan Council election is going very well and there were no obstacles. 

Hovhannes Shahinyan—who is second in the interim coalition government’s junior partner Orinats Yerkir (Rule of Law) Party (RLP) list for the Yerevan election which will be conducted on Sunday—stated the aforesaid during a press conference on Tuesday.

In his words, even though they have not met any obstacles during the campaign season, they have heard that other candidates had faced obstacles and this, as per Shahinyan, should be condemned.   

He also expressed a conviction that RLP will win the election and acting Emergency Situations Minister Armen Yeritsyan, who heads the RLP’s abovementioned list, will become the Mayor of Yerevan. 

“Yerevan will win and have phenomenal mayor,” Shahinyan added.  

He noted that they are doing as much as they can at the moment, but they can do more. And if Yeritsyan is not elected, he will not assume any position in the city hall.    

To the query as to what sets their election platform apart from the platforms of the other political forces that are running in the Yerevan municipal election, the Orinats Yerkir Party representative responded by saying that the important thing is to implement the platforms.