A clash took place Friday morning between the people and the police as a result of the citizens' breaking into the Parakar village hall in Armenia.

Armenian News-NEWS.am's video camera has captured the moment when a police officer and a citizen felt ill and fainted during this clash.

The police at the scene are using brutal force to remove the people from the village hall building, where the session of the newly elected Parakar council of elders will start soon.

Also, the police are forming a human shield to prevent citizens from entering the village hall.

As a result of the local elections in Parakar on December 5, the Country to Live party won ten seats in the village council, the "Davit Minasyan" bloc of parties—nine, and Armenia’s ruling Civil Contract Party—two.

First, Volodya Grigoryan, the candidate from the Country to Live party, was nominated for the post of village mayor, and was elected by ten votes. According to the Country to Live party, the law allows to elect by 40 percent the only candidate nominated for community leader.

After that, the Parakar village council members supporting Davit Minasyan’s candidacy came to the council, and they elected him village mayor, with 11 votes—which is more than 50 percent.

On December 23, supporters of the Country to Live party had gathered at the courtyard of the Parakar House of Culture, where the inauguration of their candidate for village mayor was to take place. But the police had not permitted them to enter the building, and therefore this inauguration had taken place outside.

But on the same day, the "Davit Minasyan" bloc of parties had filed a lawsuit demanding that the election results be declared invalid. And the Administrative Court ruled to declare invalid the results of the elections for the mayor of Parakar village.

The newly elected council of elders of Parakar village was to convene its first session Wednesday, and the election of the new head of this rural community was on the agenda. The session, however, did not take place because the "Country to Live" Faction was not in attendance.