A special sitting of the Yerevan Council of Elders is being held at the Yerevan city hall, during which the inauguration of the new mayor will take place.

The ceremony is attended by Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, National Assembly speaker Alen Simonyan, Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan, Minister of Defense Suren Papikyan, and several other high-ranking officials.

At Wednesday’s special session of the Yerevan city council, the ruling majority "My Step" Faction had expressed no confidence in then Mayor Hayk Marutyan and elected then Deputy Mayor Hrachya Sargsyan as the new mayor.

Earlier, the "My Step" Faction had collected signatures to express no confidence in Marutyan. This initiative was supported also by the members of the opposition “Prosperous Armenia” Faction and Ani Khachatryan from the opposition “Luys” Faction.

But several members of the "My Step" Faction had opposed this initiative and resigned from the Yerevan city council.