The Republic Party has voted in favor of forming a government in Yerevan, voted in favor of resolving the situation, voted in favor of Armenia's independence and sovereignty. Artak Zeynalyan, head of the Republic Faction of the new Yerevan Council of Elders, announced this to reporters during the break at the inaugural session of the new council.

Zeynalyan, however, did not answer the question whether they were offered the position of deputy mayor.

"Remaining questions during the briefing," he said.

Voting for the election of the new mayor of Yerevan took place at the Council of Elders a little while ago. The only candidate was Tigran Avinyan from the majority Civil Contract Faction. The election results will be announced at 11.30am.

Members of the Civil Contract, Republic, and Public Voice factions are participating in the first session of the newly elected Yerevan Council of Elders.

Earlier, Armenian News-NEWS.am reported that according to the results of the Yerevan Council of Elders elections held on September 17, the seats at the newly elected council were distributed as follows:

Civil Contract Party - 24 seats

National Progress Party - 14 seats

Mother Armenia bloc of parties - 12 seats

Republic Party - 8 seats

Public Voice Party - 7 seats

This means that no political force has managed to form an absolute majority, and therefore it will be necessary to form a coalition to elect a mayor.

The Mother Armenia bloc, led by opposition ex-MP Andranik Tevanyan, and National Progress Party, led by former mayor Hayk Marutyan, have announced that they will not participate in the first session of the new Council of Elders so that there will be no quorum, and therefore the Council of Elders is dissolved and new elections are held. Although the Public Voice Party, led by well-known blogger Vardan Ghukasyan, had announced that they will participate in the first session of the Council of Elders, they announced Monday that they still do not have a decision on the matter.

The ruling Civil Contract Party and the Republic Party had stated that they will participate in the first session.